Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) called on NHS and local authority leaders to establish the teams in guidance on their use of the Better Care Fund (BCF), under which they are required to pool resources to tackle government priorities.

Social Worker 39

Social Worker Hospitals Rehabilitation Disability 39

Community Care

JANUARY 18, 2023

Hospital social workers should be reinstated onto wards to support people to achieve better outcomes on discharge, amid the current severe pressures on the NHS and social care. Managing chaos, doing our best for patients and supporting each other: hospital social work under Covid.

Hospitals 58

Hospitals Social Worker Recovery Rehabilitation 58

Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. However, she raised concerns about the time-limited nature of resourcing of them.

Disability 66

Disability Hospitals Mental Health Rehabilitation 66

Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service. “Most people want to be discharged from hospital back home. “We need to fix the problem at both ends,” she said.

Rehabilitation 61

Rehabilitation Hospitals Home Care Government 61

Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

The government will give the NHS an extra £200m to buy short-term care placements to help relieve the pressures on its beleaguered emergency care system. The new money is in addition to the £500m adult social care discharge fund , which is designed to both speed up hospital discharge and bolster the social care workforce over the winter.

Hospital Discharges 57

Hospital Discharges Rehabilitation Hospitals Home Care 57

Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in “poor or potentially illegal” practice, through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent. We have real concerns that those staff aren’t there. NHS urged to work with councils .

Rehabilitation 53

Rehabilitation Hospital Discharges Hospitals Recovery 53

Relias

MAY 6, 2022

PEPPER is a yearly report given to hospices, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation centers, and other U.S. For example, if you have a target area score in the 85th percentile nationally, you are ranked in the bottom 15% of all hospitals for that target area in the nation. What Is the PEPPER?

Hospice 98

Hospice Medicare Rehabilitation Healthcare 98