Category: Community Care- Adults
Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in “poor or potentially illegal” practice, through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent. That was the warning from the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), in response to the Department of Health and Social […]
Some Court of Protection orders for professional reports on people subject to proceedings are “disproportionate, overly burdensome, and wrongly authorised”, mental health leaders have warned. The court’s vice-president, Mr Justice Hayden, shared feedback from mental health trust directors regarding orders for reports under section 49 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, in a letter to […]
Less than one in five adult social care staff have been vaccinated against flu or received their autumn booster jab for Covid-19, according to government figures. The low rates come with the two viruses being a significant cause of the current severe pressures on the NHS and amid significant workforce shortages in social care. The […]
Social care staff have been worst hit by long Covid among occupational groups in the UK, figures have revealed. An estimated 5.47% of sector staff reported long Covid symptoms in the four weeks up to 4 December 2022, having first had suspected or confirmed Covid-19 12 weeks previously, showed data from the Office for National […]
An increase in adult social care funding next year should deliver “tangible improvements” to services, the government told councils today. Authorities should use the 2023-24 package, which the government said amounted to a real-terms increase, to go beyond tackling inflationary pressures to addressing key sector challenges, according to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing & […]
The minimum price commissioners should pay home care providers will rise by 11.8% next year due to increases in the national living wage and the impact of inflation on services’ costs. That was the message from the Homecare Association as it announced that the minimum for 2023-24 would be £25.95, up from £23.20 currently. The […]
The ‘failed’ Care Act 2014 must be properly implemented as part of a radical shift in adult social care from a ‘transactional’ to an ‘enabling’ service, peers have said. This should be underpinned by a fully-funded long-term plan for the sector based on the ambition of promoting ‘gloriously ordinary lives’ for disabled and older people […]
Older people are being unlawfully detained in mental health hospitals “in very many cases” because of poor practice around the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the Care Quality Commission has warned. The CQC said that, in some older people’s wards, staff were applying for a DoLS authorisation after the expiry of a patient’s stay for […]
Councils piloting the cap on care costs have paused their work after the government announced a two-year delay to the policy. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is in talks with the six ‘trailblazer’ authorities about the way forward after chancellor Jeremy Hunt put back the implementation of the adult social care charging […]
Approved mental health professionals (AMHPs) are making greater use of powers of entry under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) to tackle significant mental health crises or suspected abuse or neglect. There was an 8% year-on-year rise in detentions of people under section 135 of the MHA in 2021-22, with the number up 23% on […]