As part of their ‘Making integration happen’ campaign, Skills for Care CEO, Oonagh Smyth, discusses how integration is at the core of effective person-centred care. Integrated care is a coordinated
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The NHS will be encouraged to buy up social care beds in a bid to get medically-fit patients out of hospitals faster, Labour has said. Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes
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Plans to expand the number of places that patients will be able to get care out of hospital have been hailed as the “largest expansion of choice in the NHS
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The average number of beds occupied by patients delayed from leaving hospital reached its highest level in four months in March, according to latest figures. Public Health Scotland data showed
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A support programme for babies and their families in England must have a guaranteed minimum level of long-term funding, a watchdogs’ review has said. The Start for Life programme offers
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Covid testing in people being discharged from hospital to care homes should continue, a representative body has said as it warned of potentially “serious consequences” in ending the practice. The
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A morbidly obese teenager with disabilities who died after being severely neglected by her parents did not have a care plan and her suffering was “avoidable”, a safeguarding report has
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Primary and community care should be prioritised to ensure England’s health system is effective and sustainable, a think tank has said. The King’s Fund also warned that the “answer to
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The unsafe transfer of mental health patients from hospital care back into the community is putting them at risk of readmission and suicide, the health ombudsman has warned. It also
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A disabled man was “trapped in his bedroom for five years” due to care failings, a report has revealed. The man, named in the report as Mr E and aged
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