Fewer than a quarter of standard Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications in England were completed within the 21-day statutory timeframe last year, according to official statistics published this week. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)…
Read more...A £20 million research hub led by the University of Exeter will build the artificial intelligence and data systems the NHS needs to prevent dementia. The money will help develop new technologies and AI solutions to…
Read more...As part of the Independent Care Group (iCG) annual conference at York Racecourse last week, there was an iCG ‘Who Cares?’ Awards ceremony. Six outstanding…
Read more...Young people with complex physical and mental health needs are being let down by services that abruptly alter or withdraw their support as they reach 16 or 18, experts have warned, leaving some of the most vulnerable in the system without the care they depend on at a critical point in their lives.
Read more...More Than a Provider, a collaboration of five not-for-profit social care organisations, has published a new position paper calling for a shift away from short-term, cost-driven commissioning and towards a model that delivers lasting value for people, communities and public services. The report, Better Lives, Better Value, Better Partnership…
Read more...The shrinking of England’s integrated care boards (ICBs) could damage the working relationship between the NHS and local councils, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found, raising questions for social care providers who depend on both.
Read more...A major new study will examine proteins in the blood of more than 80,000 UK Biobank volunteers in the hope of uncovering the earliest biological changes linked to dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK has announced.
Read more...Care England pairs a call for better NHS dental access with practical resources to help care teams put research into everyday care. Care England is…
Read more...Omega Healthcare Investors, a US real estate investment trust and its partner Foundation Partners, an investor in operational real estate and asset-backed operating businesses, have…
Read more...Former Care Minister Norman Lamb has expressed concern about the creation of a standalone National Care Service, saying it would be a “disaster” if it was centralised.
Read more...The Government’s decision to abandon plans that would have forced many migrant care workers to wait up to 15 years before qualifying for Indefinite Leave to Remain has been broadly welcomed by leaders across the health and social care sectors.
Read more...Care England and Dementia Forward have warned that there may be up to 100,000 working-age people with dementia across England (40,000 more than common estimates suggest). Despite this, 95% of local authorities have no way of recording young-onset dementia (YOD) in their data systems.
Read more...Overseas care workers will be spared the government’s new 10-year wait for permanent settlement, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced, in a significant softening of the…
Read more...Care home residents and hospital patients could gain a legal right to nominate a relative or friend to support them in person, under an amendment to the Health Bill now before Parliament. The measure is intended to ensure no one relying on health…
Read more...The NIHR is backing a first-of-its-kind UK clinical trial that could cut years off the search for effective Alzheimer’s treatments.
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