Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

Integrated care boards (ICBs) will be able to use the money to buy beds in care homes or other settings for up to four weeks in order to speed up hospital discharges, freeing up beds to admit people stuck in accident and emergency departments. NHS to get most of £500m winter adult social care funding.

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The Guardian

JULY 15, 2024

Authorities say attempts to clear NHS backlogs sucking up scant funds at expense of preventive care Vulnerable people face being denied basic preventive social care at home due to a wave of rapid discharges from hospitals that is sucking up resources, council bosses have warned. Continue reading.

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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. “We must recognise that long-term, sustainable investment is needed in primary and community based care and support and for family carers.”

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Relias

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Now they are hoping to reduce their risk of infection from COVID-19 and get more consistent care in their homes. Medicare and other payers also encourage home-based care when appropriate to keep the cost of care low compared with skilled nursing facilities and hospitals. Financial Drain From Employee Churn.

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The Guardian

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Exclusive: almost one in four people unable to be discharged were waiting for home care, data reveals A “perilous” shortage of homecare workers is the biggest reason thousands of people are languishing longer in hospital than needed, driving up waiting lists and making people sicker, figures reveal. Continue reading.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This was evidenced in the fact that, according to the NHS Confederation, two in five people are not able to leave hospital when ready, in large part because of a lack of social care. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee. . Photo: Kate Terroni/CQC.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The number of registered care home beds shrank by 0.6% in the year to July 2023, and home care providers deemed hard to replace delivered almost 15% fewer hours’ care in the first three months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2021.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. The funding will be allocated to areas deemed to have the greatest urgent and emergency care challenges this winter.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

This was laid bare by a National Care Forum survey, also released today , showing members in the home care and residential care sectors were running vacancy rates of 18% in addition to 14% absence rates last week. to redress the situation over the winter and relax immigration restrictions for the sector.

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Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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Relias

MAY 6, 2022

Routine or continuous home care provided in an assisted living facility. 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. Some of these target areas include: Lengthy stays. PEPPER Review and Analysis Process.

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The Guardian

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Many fit people are not being discharged because of a lack of adult home care or community health provision The number of patients stuck in hospital in England despite being medically fit to leave nearly doubled between February and November this year. Continue reading.

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Community Care

MARCH 3, 2023

Councils underfunded home care and older people’s care home services in England by just under £2.9bn in 2021-22, according to an analysis by provider bodies. This was as part of a funding settlement ministers have said would provide councils with up to £2.8bn in 2023-24 and £4.7bn in 2024-25 for social care. .”

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) issued the warning after councils published the results of costs of care exercises they were required to undertake by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) by 1 February. per hour gap for home care but suggested there was no gap for nursing home fees.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. This made it possible for KVC to meet the needs of any child and family, extending all the way to inpatient children’s mental health hospitals when needed.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In a snapshot survey of members in November, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services found mounting waiting lists for assessments and personal budgets and a 164% increase in commissioned home care hours left undelivered between May-July and August-September. Vaccines boosted and visits limited.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most of this will come via the Better Care Fund – the existing stream designed to support health and social care integration – to finance services to support hospital discharge, with the rest coming through a ring-fenced grant. ‘Disappointing’ delay to care cap.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The NHS will be given the majority of a £500m fund for adult social care, designed to speed up hospital discharge and bolster the care workforce. 13,000 people stuck in hospitals. Currently, more than 13,000 people who are medically fit for discharge are stuck in hospital every day.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

. “The scale of how many people are either not getting the care and support they need, or are getting the wrong kind of help, at the wrong time and in the wrong place is staggering,” McClinton told fellow sector leaders. million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year.

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Community Care

JUNE 21, 2023

By Mithran Samuel and Dan Parton Adults’ services teams have cut care and assessment waiting lists by 60,000 since last summer and are arranging more home care, but continue to struggle with mounting need. Councils also commissioned 30% more home care hours from January to March 2023 (54.5

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The government, NHS and sector leaders see the staff shortage as a key factor in problems including the high volume of delayed discharges from hospitals and long waiting lists for social care assessments and packages. While vacancy rates rose for council adults’ practitioners from 2020-21, from 7.5%

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In my extended family, we also have someone who spent about 10 years in an assessment and treatment unit [a mental health hospital for people with learning disabilities or autism] and had experienced being in a seclusion room. It doesn’t have to be a lifetime of day care or home care or peers following them around all the time.

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Community Care

JULY 17, 2024

This will have significant implications for the home care sector, with a recent Homecare Association survey finding that two-thirds of providers offer zero-hour contracts to their staff. 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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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Each year, the Joint Commission issues a list of top national patient safety goals for healthcare settings, including hospitals, nursing care centers, behavioral health care and human services, ambulatory healthcare, home care, and more. Improve staff communication. Use medicines safely.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

Practitioners are having to step in to carry out welfare checks on adults going without the care they need due to mounting staff shortages in residential and home care, said the British Association of Social Workers (BASW). Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% Related articles.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dementia care is one of the most challenging types of patient care in every setting — from in-home care to assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This will be combined, in a new grant, with £162m in existing spending to support councils in paying providers a fair cost of care, and also distributed in line with the relative needs formula. 300m for adult social care to support hospital discharge.

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. People with dementia struggle to express their needs, thoughts, and feelings as their disease progresses.

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. People with dementia struggle to express their needs, thoughts, and feelings as their disease progresses.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Providers also highlighted the council’s investment in the care workforce, including by funding them to pay above the above the real living wage (currently £12 an hour) and cover holiday pay, sick pay and travel time, thereby boosting recruitment and retention.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Claims-based measures make up 35% of the TPS and are based on acute-care hospitalizations in the first 60 days of care and emergency department use without hospitalization in the first 60 days of care. Understanding the scoring system. Evaluate how patient calls are handled.

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Relias

AUGUST 15, 2022

But home health leaders have questioned the CMS behavioral adjustment methodology, and National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William Dombi called the change “fatally flawed” in a Home Health Care News article. Cap on Negative Wage Index. A similar cap was proposed earlier for hospice.

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KVC

MARCH 3, 2021

These agencies investigate reports of abuse and neglect, and work closely with the court system to decide whether or not to remove a child from their home. While social workers do provide their professional perspective, ultimately a judge decides whether the child needs out-of-home care.

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KVC

MARCH 1, 2021

Whether a family needs support in their own home or during out-of-home care, KVC is driven to seek diverse perspectives, work inclusively, bridge gaps, and add capacity to meet needs.”. KVC’s services include in-home family support, foster care, adoption, behavioral healthcare, and children’s psychiatric hospitals.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

Photo: Zerbor/Adobe Stock The rise in the overseas workforce follows a 52% rise in adult social care vacancies in 2021-22 , attributed to factors including a loss of competitiveness in pay to retail and hospitality, a drop in the number of migrant staff from Europe due to Brexit and post-Covid burnout among the workforce.

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The Guardian

JUNE 15, 2022

We’d like to hear from NHS and social care workers, patients and their relatives about the impacts of shortages Nearly 9,000 people in England were waiting for home care services at the beginning of this year, according to figures obtained by the Observer , amid an acute staffing shortage in social care.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although home health and hospice nurses don’t close out their shifts with a report as in hospitals, they can establish a similar mind-set of follow-up. Smart agencies place a strong emphasis on follow-up, supported by procedures, requirements, and accountability.

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