Community Care

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said there were currently 13,000 people in hospital who should be receiving care in the community. The DHSC had provided dedicated funding for hospital discharge from March 2020 to March 2022 to help keep free up beds during Covid.

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Community Care

JANUARY 13, 2022

“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 hospital discharges to get patients into the best place for their care and support to continue.”.

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The Guardian

JUNE 6, 2023

Exclusive: Volunteers sought in England to take equipment and drugs to people’s homes among other tasks Health ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people’s homes in a bid to free up congested hospital wards.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

” In September, the government announced £500m for adult social care to help speed up hospital discharges – to relieve NHS pressures – and bolster the care workforce. We see unpaid carers at breaking point and people unable to afford the support they need.”

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Community Care

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This is the same as the allocation for 2024-25, made up of the £2.1bn improved BCF – which can be used by councils to meet adult social care needs, help reduce pressures on the NHS and speed up hospital discharge – and £0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge.

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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.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospital discharge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures. The £2.14bn improved better care fund (iBCF), the same as in 2022-23. Councils’ share of the £4.8bn in NHS funding, up by 5.7%

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Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2023

“Our concern is that with the focus on discharge above everything else,” she added. “We can see from ADASS surveys that directors of adult social care are prioritising their resources to support hospital discharge or to respond to referrals where there are concerns about abuse or neglect.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Liz, a carer to her husband, who has dementia and Parkinson’s, said she found the panel meetings useful in understanding how processes such as hospital discharge and safeguarding worked. “It allowed me to feel comfortable airing my concerns,” she added.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The CQC welcomed the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) injection of £500m into the sector this winter to boost its capacity to respond to hospital discharges and tackle workforce shortages. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 5, 2022

It said that rules meaning homes with Covid cannot accept hospital discharges will cause backlogs in the already struggling NHS. Over 11,000 care home workers are off for Covid reasons, according to internal health system staffing data seen by the Guardian. Continue reading.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2022

.” However, they warned that the current situation left councils in “the invidious position of having to make decisions about paying providers more to retain staff at the same time as being very aware of the numbers of people waiting for or having insufficient care and support” While the government has provided councils and NHS leaders (..)

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

In comments dripping with condescension, people at a center that institutionalizes these infants for days or weeks after hospital discharge don’t like this one bit. That’s the policy that, as Reveal and The New York Times Magazine exposed last week , has had tragic results for children across the country.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

93% of directors said they backed more government funding for adult social care beyond £500m announced in September to support the workforce and hospital discharges , 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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

307m through a new adult social care discharge fund, designed to help speed up hospital discharges. A £475m rise in the market sustainability and fair cost of care fund, designed to help councils increase fees to adult social care providers, cut waiting lists for services and tackle recruitment and retention issues.

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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.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2024

” IMPACTAgewell was also introduced within the hospital discharge processes, through a pilot with the Inver Intermediate Care Unit. The IMPACTAgewell project officer attended weekly meetings with community discharge facilitators to discuss older people who might benefit from support.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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 hospital discharge and 0.5bn dedicated to supporting hospital discharge.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

Our evidence shows what a devastating time hospital discharge can be for carers if they are not consulted, involved or given the right information and support to care safely and well. It is vital to uphold this amendment and ensure that it remains in the bill. They should not be taken for granted.” ”

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The package, designed to speed up hospital discharges by increasing the availability of social care, and to boost the supply of care staff, was broadly welcomed by councils, providers, think-tanks and charities. 52% rise in vacancies.

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Community Care

JULY 10, 2024

Local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. A principle of ‘home first’ that supports people to live independently for as long as possible. An agreement setting fair pay, terms and conditions, and training standards for adult social care workers, following widespread consultation.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

A BASW spokesperson said staff shortages in the wider workforce had been exacerbated by Omicron, resulting in a lack of provision “to facilitate hospital discharge or to support a preventative approach”. Vacancies across adult social care rose from 9.2% to 9.4% , from November to December 2021, up from 6.1%

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Community Care

DECEMBER 19, 2022

300m for adult social care to support hospital discharge. This will need to be pooled, within the Better Care Fund, with a further £300m to support discharge, likely channelled through the NHS.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

We want a shift from the dominant narrative around hospital discharge. On taking up the presidency, she says: “It’s daunting – but exciting at the same time. The roadmap gives us a tool, a resource to support a narrative with government.

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The Guardian

APRIL 27, 2022

Analysis: The high court found policy that sent untested people into homes was illegal and irrational Covid care home discharge policy was unlawful, says court This time of year brings bad memories for families of care home residents who died in Covid’s first wave when the virus swept, mostly unchecked, through nursing homes.

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Communicating clearly about medication requirements during transitions of care — either from one hospital setting to another or during a hospital discharge — helps prevent errors. As with previous goals, communication is the primary component, both verbal and written.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

The service was received by 5% of older people on hospital discharge, 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%.

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Social Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here, Hayley shares her thoughts on how care staff can provide solutions to hospital discharge pressures and support admission avoidance strategies, including the redesign of traditional residential and nursing care provision, using the lessons from the past to inform the future.

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Social Work With Adults

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Hospital discharge has been a priority for DHSC and I am clear that social workers working in hospitals, as part of multi-disciplinary support and decision making ,is vital if people are to receive the right help and that right time in the right place.

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The Guardian

JUNE 14, 2023

Karen Edmunds and Jol Miskin respond to the government’s plan to use volunteers to plug gaps in social and health care services I had to read your article twice to get over the shock of yet another government sticking plaster ( Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges, 6 June ).

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Health & Social Care Workforce

JUNE 8, 2021

Senior Research Fellow, Dr Michelle Cornes, has been working with NHS England and Improvement on the new Discharge to Assess (D2A) practice guidance, identifying good practice examples that illustrate how this new hospital discharge policy can work effectively for patients … Continue reading →

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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. That was the message today from the Adult Principal Social Worker Network in an open letter to health and social care secretary Steve Barclay.

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Community Care

JANUARY 30, 2023

Four in ten people whose discharge from hospital is delayed are awaiting a social care package, according to NHS data. The figure, revealed today in a government plan to reduce hospital pressures, came as council leaders criticised ministers for a narrative of “blaming” social care for delayed discharges.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 4, 2023

Part of this funding is extensions to existing short-term grants, part is extensions to winter funding focused on hospital discharges and part is dependent on council tax rises, which not all local authorities will impose.

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Social Work With Adults

MARCH 19, 2024

Before that I was in a short-stay MDT setting for assessments and reablement for adults following hospital discharge or community referral and other varied roles in the sector. I was independent, leaving home at 7am in the morning and delivering care and support in people’s homes as part of a local authority reablement team.

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Social Care

APRIL 28, 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Mairead helped to keep staff safe whilst prioritising safe hospital discharge, enabling even clientas with more complex care needs to return home quickly – making a huge impact to the families traumatized by the virus. Click the links to find out more about the work Mairead has supported.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. Our new standards will ensure high-quality care and ongoing sustainability, and ensure providers behave responsibly. This sector collective agreement will set fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards.

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