Social Care Institute for Excellence, November 2018
This Future of Care paper, aimed at chief executives, directors and senior managers from the NHS, local authorities, housing organisations and voluntary and community sector, is based on findings from interviews with systems leaders and a review of the literature. The NHS Leadership Academy commissioned SCIE to undertake this research to further expand the understanding of systems leadership and leadership of integrated care systems. The research will inform the Leadership Academy’s long-term plans for supporting leaders in integrated care systems. Quotes from these leaders are presented throughout the report.
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Priorities for Adult Social Work Research: Results from the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for adult social work
Department of Health and Social Care, November 2018
This report sets out the top ten priorities for adult social work research. It aims to help make sure future research answers the questions that are important to social workers and those who are in contact with them. The priorities cover a broad range of themes and issues for adult social workers. These will help to improve understanding of the social work approaches and interventions that work and why, and help to achieve the best outcomes for people and their carers.
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UK care home providers for older people: advice on consumer law: Helping care homes comply with their consumer law obligations
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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