Competition and Markets Authority, November 2018
The advice is being published as part of the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) ongoing consumer protection work into residential care homes and nursing homes for older people (over 65s). It follows the CMA’s examination of the sector last year, which found that some residents are at risk of being treated unfairly and recommended urgent action to reform the sector.
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Age is just a number: views among people aged 50 and over in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Centre for Ageing Better, November 2018
This report analyses the most recent data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). The data shows that across the whole sample of more than 6,000 people aged 50 and over in England, most are feeling fairly good about ageing, with 60 per cent saying that growing older is a positive experience. However there are large and consistent differences by socioeconomic status.
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Evidence-based early years intervention
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, November 2018
This report urges the Government to develop a new national strategy to capitalise on the opportunity that early intervention provides to transform the lives of those who suffer adversity in childhood, while also saving long-term costs to Government.
The Committee’s Report identifies examples of early intervention working well around the country, but also the challenges that local authorities and their partners currently face in delivering effective, evidence-based early intervention. It concludes that the overall provision of early intervention in England is fragmented, with varying levels of support, focus on evidence, and success.
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The health care workforce in England: make or break?
The King’s Fund, November 2018
This briefing highlights the scale of workforce challenges now facing the health service and the threat this poses to the delivery and quality of care over the next 10 years. It sets out the reasons why the NHS long-term plan and supporting workforce strategy must address the urgent and mounting challenges facing the health care workforce.
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Library bulletins – November 2018
This week’s Library bulletin is on Suicide Prevention.
Understanding the health care needs of people with multiple health conditions
The Health Foundation, November 2018
This report finds that approximately 14.2 million people have two or more conditions, which represents nearly a quarter of all adults living in England. It argues that resourcing primary care so GPs and nurses have the time to work together with patients to manage their conditions, and ensuring that hospital care has more coordination between specialties is key to supporting patients with multiple health conditions.
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Prevention is better than cure: our vision to help you live well for longer
Department of Health and Social Care, November 2018
The document sets out the government’s vision for:
stopping health problems from arising in the first place
supporting people to manage their health problems when they do arise
The goal is to improve healthy life expectancy by at least 5 extra years, by 2035, and to close the gap between the richest and poorest.
A collection of case studies has been published, showing examples of good practice in preventing health problems from happening.
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Fair funding for mental health: putting parity into practice: Briefing
Institute for Public Policy Research, November 2018
The NHS is currently in the process of authoring a long-term plan that will set out what it wants to achieve with additional funding and how this funding will be allocated. This Institute for Public Policy Research briefing argues that it is crucial that this plan raises our ambitions on mental health, what parity of esteem looks like and how much it will cost to get there.
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British Journal of Healthcare Assistants – November 2018
The November issue of British Journal of Healthcare Assistants has been published. This issue includes articles on effective wound management, raising awareness of autism spectrum disorders for healthcare workers, and the wellbeing of professional care workers.
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British Journal of Mental Health Nursing – Vol 7. No.5
Volume 7, issue 5 of British Journal of Mental Health Nursing has been published. This issue includes articles on loneliness and mental health, eating psychopathology of staff working with patients with an eating disorder, and embedding recovery-based approaches into mental health nurse training.
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