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This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the 2.1bn improved BCF grant which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospitaldischarge and 0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospitaldischarge.
However, the CQC found Camden had no waiting lists for care assessments, hospitaldischarge, care home placements, home care services, reablement, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and safeguarding cases.
There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.
Ensuring that care providers and councils have the staff and capacity to handle hospitaldischarges is crucial to ensure people get the right care at the right time, and to freeing up NHS time and space. However, in the letter, NHSE/I director of community health Matthew Winn admitted post-discharge capacity may reduce in some areas.
“More than 50 million PCR and 142 million LFD kits have been delivered to care homes and we have invested a further £478 million to support safe and timely hospitaldischarges to get patients into the best place for their care and support to continue.”.
This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospitaldischarge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures. That will take a long-term plan, with long term increases in funding to provide the care and support older and disabled people need and to support us all to live and work and care.”
If this were to be the case, we could make some inroads in maintaining the essential workforce needed so that older and disabled people can continue to access support and live life fully.” . “Care work is highly skilled and all care workers should be paid more than the national living wage.
.” 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.
93% of directors said they backed more government funding for adult social care beyond £500m announced in September to support the workforce and hospitaldischarges , which is yet to be allocated two months on. Williams added: “The £500m discharge fund will not solve this, when it is finally distributed – and it is urgently needed.
Age UK charity director Caroline Abrahams said: “If it had passed, it would have taken the cap beyond the grasp of older people with few or modest assets, poorer places and disabled people of working age. It will also disproportionately affect working age adults with disabilities.” ” Related articles. ”
The service was received by 5% of older people on hospitaldischarge, compared to an England average of 3%, and 89% were still at home 91 days after discharge to a reablement service, compared with a national average of 82%.
If I take you back nine years, I was without the health and disability challenges I face today. Before that I was in a short-stay MDT setting for assessments and reablement for adults following hospitaldischarge or community referral and other varied roles in the sector.
Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospitaldischarge. We will explore how we best manage and support an ageing population; how integration with the NHS can be secured; how to best support working age disabled adults; and how to move to a more preventative system.”
Amongst other papers, I found a CQC special study on hospitaldischarge from 2004, the 2008 End of Life Care strategy (another hot topic as the Assisted Dying Bill progresses) and from 2009, a vision to reform our care and support system to establish a National Care Service.
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