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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Community Care

MAY 13, 2022

The figure, dating from the end of February, is six times that recorded in September last year, and comes with most directors reporting they have had to prioritise assessments for cases of suspected abuse or neglect, hospital discharge or reablement following a temporary residential care stay. ADASS May 2022 survey: key findings.

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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.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

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.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2022

However, ministers made a concession on another amendment by peers, which would have required NHS bodies to consult current or prospective carers of hospital patients before hospital discharge to determine whether they are willing and able to provide care, where they have safety concerns around discharge.

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2022

Funding to help care providers fund infection control and Covid testing, and for the NHS to fund free care for up to four weeks for people discharged from hospital with support needs, ended on 31 March, as did winter resources to help providers recruit and retain staff in the face of mounting pressures.

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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. This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospital discharge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures.

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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. Continue reading.

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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

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. We need radical action – and fast.”.

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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. Our concern is that with the focus on discharge above everything else,” she added.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“It is also adding to the endless pressures we see with ambulances and hospitals, and adding to the pressures we see in our communities, [including] more people requesting help with mental health and domestic abuse, [and] 2.2 million hours of home care [that] couldn’t be delivered in the first quarter of this year.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 12, 2023

The Washington State Standard reports that Washington State is easing a policy that had required hospitals to automatically turn in to the family police the parents of any newborn “affected” by the mother’s substance use. I have a blog post about it. ● Of course, not everyone is happy about this.

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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

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

JULY 10, 2024

But the impact was compounded in the early stages by government policies to free up 15,000 hospital beds in March 2020 and for care homes to make their full capacity available. This led to many people with asymptomatic Covid being discharged into residential care. as of autumn 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics ).

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2022

” Duty to consult carers before discharge reinserted. The Health and Care Bill, as drafted , would remove this requirement, along with the rest of the existing legal regime for tackling delayed discharges, as part of the shift to the discharge-to-assess model. They should not be taken for granted.” ”

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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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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

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, 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. However, it said that “too many” councils paid far less than the true cost.

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Community Care

APRIL 28, 2023

At the same time, much of the resource it has provided is directed towards clearing hospital beds, rather than the vision of social care as a vehicle for better lives. We want a shift from the dominant narrative around hospital discharge. Glass half-full Tarka appears to be taking a glass half-full approach to this issue.

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Community Care

JANUARY 25, 2022

At the same time, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said adult social workers were facing “significant increases in assessment and planning work” due to an “ever-growing” number of people needing care at home and going in and out of hospital. Mounting staff shortages. Related articles.

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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. A hospital should consider its culture when designing processes to meet the Universal Protocol.”

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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

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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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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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Data showed that 86% of people who received a short-term service in the borough did not require ongoing support, while 84% of older people were still at home 91 days after discharge from hospital to a reablement service, exceeding the England average in both cases.

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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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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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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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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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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

Her clinical experience, gained in specialist hospital coronary and intensive care units, continues to remind her to always consider those affected by sudden serious illness. She has also found time to participate in substantial charitable fundraising activities. Click the links to find out more about the work Mairead has supported.

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