14 July, 2015
14 July, 2015
New statutory instrument revokes and replaces the Care Quality Commission (Membership) Regulations 2008 and makes provision including in relation to maximum and minimum number of members and tenure of office of non-executive members.
13 July, 2015
New report highlights areas needing further attention including mandating joint health and social care commissioning of neurological services and ensuring that everyone with a long-term neurological condition is offered a personal care plan, covering both health and social care.
13 July, 2015
LGA supports introduction of Living Wage but says that its vital that extra cost of wages for council workers and care workers is considered by government in wider debate on council funding.
8 July, 2015
Recommendation based on national survey of children in care which found that nearly a third felt that they had left care before they were ready to fend for themselves.
8 July, 2015
New statutory instrument provides for the persons to be excluded from the definition of 'relevant health or adult social care commissioner or provider' for the purposes of sections 251A, 251B and 251C of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
7 July, 2015
7 July, 2015
New analysis shows that number of older people who have difficulty with basic tasks such as getting out of bed, washing and dressing but who get no help has now risen to 1,004,000.
7 July, 2015
Guardian reports that idea of 'pausing' the cost cap, due to be brought in next April, is being discussed urgently in Whitehall following intervention from Local Government Association.
6 July, 2015
In new report, King's Fund says that, unless new funding is announced in Wednesday's Budget, the government must 'face the consequences' since either patient care will suffer or the Department of Health will overspend its budget this year and further reductions in access to social care are inevitable.
6 July, 2015
New report from Alzheimer's Society sets out results of survey of GPs including that 77 per cent think their patients with dementia rely on family as they don't get enough help from health and social care services.
2 July, 2015
New report from CPAG Scotland that looks at how the concordat commitment has impacted on Scottish kinship carers and the children for whom they care, and considers some of the challenges that lie ahead.
2 July, 2015
New report from Carers Trust Wales also finds that one quarter of young carers reported bullying and abuse in school because they were a carer.
2 July, 2015
Department of Health notice that sets out the Department's position on the determination of questions of ordinary residence referred to the Secretary of State under section 40 of the Care Act 2014, pending the department’s appeal to the Supreme Court in the case of Cornwall Council v Secretary of State for Health and Others (Cornwall) - judgment is due on 8 July 2015.
2 July, 2015
New regulations bring into force a number of provisions including imposing requirements to secure that health and social care services provided in the course of carrying on regulated activities do not cause avoidable harm, and imposing a new duty on relevant health or adult social care commissioners or providers to share information held about an individual where they consider that the disclosure is likely to facilitate the care provided to the individual and is in their best interests.
1 July, 2015
New £20m fund to support more than 1,600 disabled people in Wales with their care needs comes into operation today,
30 June, 2015
Charity warns that, with money from Fund being transferred to local authorities without ring fencing, some disabled people will no longer receive any support at all and others will find their support package reduced.
25 June, 2015
Annual Review of Local Government Complaints for 2014/2015, published today, also warns that many councils are dealing with increasing numbers of complaints and have less resource available to manage them due to resources being cut in complaint handling teams.
24 June, 2015
New regulations in Wales that provide for carrying out assessments as to which people in a local authority’s area need care and support, and the extent to which there are carers in the area who need support.
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