Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2023

Learning disabilities and autism The draft bill aims to strengthen safeguards for those with learning disabilities and autistic people. The draft bill would also remove learning disabilities and autism as conditions for which an individual could be detained for treatment under section 3 of the MHA.

Mental Health 57

Mental Health Disability Advocacy Government 57

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. For example, did you know that Hitler used “gas buses” to travel through the countryside, rounding up and murdering people with mental illnesses and disabilities?

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. The organisation’s 2021 census found that about a tenth of consultant psychiatrist posts were not filled.

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Healthcare Mental Health Psychiatry Hospitals 72

Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

.” Family inspiration Much of her career was spent working with adults with learning disabilities, a reflection of the fact that her career in social care was inspired by her own experience caring for her brother, who has profound and multiple learning disabilities.

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Hospital Discharges Diversity Disability Government 58

Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week.

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Social Worker Disability Schools Communication 55

Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The government’s response to the consultation on the draft revised Mental Capacity Act code of practice, including provisions for implementing the Liberty Protection Safeguards , the successor to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.

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Mental Health Government Interviewing Disability 55

Relias

AUGUST 5, 2022

He currently serves in a principal role in the Solutions Group at Relias, where he provides a clinical voice for post-acute healthcare through consulting, sales and marketing support, publishing, and public speaking. Incredibly, both twins continued to grow and develop, first at home, and then in the hospital after they reached 22 weeks.

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Patient Safety Healthcare Hospitals Communication 52

Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

The Labour manifesto said this would set fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards, for care staff, and would be based on consultation with trade unions and providers. This bill is a chance to strengthen people’s rights, choice, and control when they’re being treated in a mental health hospital. ”

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Mental Health Government Schools Home Care 66

Community Care

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The ombudsman also criticised the level of communication provided by Miss X’s then social worker, who went a month without contacting her, including a week in which she went without overnight care between two of a succession of hospital admissions. Disabled man left in unsuitable accommodation for 27 months, finds ombudsman.

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Hospitals Communication Social Worker Disability 53

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Physical Needs Assessment : Health Status : Social workers evaluate the individual’s physical health, identifying any chronic illnesses, disabilities, or immediate health concerns that may require attention. Social workers also play important roles in schools, hospitals, and other public settings.

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Social Worker Treatment Planning Interventional Justice and Corrections 95

Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. Labour will consult widely on the design of this agreement, before beginning the process and learn from countries where they operate successfully. “Labour is committed to ensuring families have the support they need. .

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Government Hospital Discharges Mental Health Youth Worker 67

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. For example, did you know that Hitler used “gas buses” to travel through the countryside, rounding up and murdering people with mental illnesses and disabilities?

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Bipolar Bandit

APRIL 12, 2023

I’ve worked as a lecturer in medical school, a trainer of nurses in rural South Africa, and — since immigrating to Canada — a public health consultant with Indigenous communities. For example, did you know that Hitler used “gas buses” to travel through the countryside, rounding up and murdering people with mental illnesses and disabilities?

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Interviewing Disorder Depression Mental Health 52

Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

I started doing an inventory: I launched my own mental health consulting business, completed a few training sessions, quickly boosted my professional network, got involved in various projects and the list goes on. Reminding me that I’m a patient, weak, ill, disabled, doomed. I asked myself: What is going on with me? What has changed?

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Mental Health Psychiatric Anxiety Recovery 52

Social Care

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Yet, providing unpaid care to someone who has a health condition, who is older or who has a disability, can have a profound impact on their health, wellbeing, paid work and relationships. People don’t see themselves as unpaid carers but as partners, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, and close friends first. Image created by freepik.com ].

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Adoption Consultation Disability Hospitals 18

Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

To mark the day, I’m delighted to present this blog from Jak Savage MBE , social care consultant and individual employer of personal assistants (PAs). If I take you back nine years, I was without the health and disability challenges I face today.

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Hospital Discharges Social Worker Adoption Disability 13

Community Care

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Police have opened an investigation into abuse of patients at a mental health hospital uncovered by the BBC. Olivia, a patient who agreed to be featured on the programme, saying that her treatment at the hospital had made her serious mental health condition worse. Related articles.

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Mental Health Hospitals Clinic Patient Safety 69

Gary Direnfeld

APRIL 21, 2022

There may have been hospitalizations. The issue is coming to terms with a likely mental illness that is severe and disabling or alternatively, so much enabling with little accountability since early childhood that this person truly hasn’t learned to cope and manage independently. There may have been some episodes of violence.

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Self-harm Disability Hospitals Private Practice 147

Social Work Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

CSWs who work in settings that provide emergency care (such as hospital emergency departments) where the facility is in-network, but the CSW is OON, are not permitted to balance bill patients beyond in-network cost-sharing amounts. CSWs who work in in-network facilities providing non-emergent care and are OON with the patient’s health plan.

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Clinic Social Worker Self-harm Psychotherapy 98

Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

“It is the worst case of child abuse and neglect that I have ever seen,” said a hospital consultant who treated Victoria in her final days. Laming tells me of a severely disabled young adult who, until the age of 18, had been well supported by children’s services.

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Social Worker Government Interviewing Social Services 69

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Women Interest group and Human Rights Committee Appeal for Peace IASSW is expresing a deep concern and condolences to all people who are suffering current armed conflicts in different parts of the world and who suffer displacement, deaths and disability. People need peace, and they need it now.

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Military Disability Hospitals Communication 94

Community Care

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A new duty on the patient’s responsible clinician to consult with a professional involved in the patient’s treatment when taking the decision to discharge. These include considering the patient’s wishes and feelings, assisting patients to participate in treatment decisions and consulting those close to the patient. What happens next?

Mental Health 57

Mental Health Government Criminal Justice Disability 57

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Two big new studies, one in JAMA Open and one in Academic Pediatrics examine who gets drug tested in hospitals and who doesn’t. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether the algorithm discriminates against families in which a parent is disabled. ● It’s who you think. ●

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