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.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2025

The BCF policy framework for 2025-26 said such teams were designed to provide “more integrated and proactive care for people with complex needs”, to help them “stay independent for as long as possible” and reduce the likelihood of them being admitted to hospital or care homes.

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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

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. as of October 2022.

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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. Rehabilitation can work in a residential setting but it needs to be in a focused unit with the right staffing.

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Community Care

MARCH 31, 2023

. “It is intrinsically linked to information and advice and to making sure that people are aware of options and can weigh up the risks, benefits and costs of each of them (after recovery and rehabilitation if the assessment is as a result of a hospital admission) so that if they can plan for the longer term.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2023

PAC training directly impacts the lives of the patient PAC services provide an extra level of assistance for people discharged from acute hospitals. They can also avoid hospital readmission, which helps them heal faster. If they experience a complication, getting them the help they need before the problem worsens is easier.

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