Category: Community Care- Adults
This article summarises a Community Care Inform guide on adults with learning disabilities and dementia and focuses on identifying and assessing dementia. The full guide covers spotting signs and symptoms, assessment and diagnosis, sharing the diagnosis and measuring quality outcomes. The guide also includes case examples, checklists, practice tips and reference points for further reading. Inform […]
The approved mental health professional (AMHP) workforce faces a significant squeeze, with one-third aged 55 or over, government reforms heralding a need for increased numbers and warnings over a lack of trainees. In a government-commissioned workforce briefing, published this week, Skills for Care estimated that of the 3,900 AMHPs in England in 2020, 33% were […]
Monday 25 January 2021 Our team manager is on leave today so I start early to be prepared. I chair a virtual team meeting at 8.30am to run through patients who are ‘medically stable for discharge (MSFD)’. We catch up on updates from the weekend and today we have over 70 patients on the MSFD […]
Adult social workers in English councils received their first real-terms pay rise in five years last year, but pay was no higher than it was in 2013, official figures have shown. The 2% rise in median full-time wages, to £35,800 as of September last year, followed four years in which average pay had stayed still […]
Disabled people were nearly three times more likely to have experienced domestic abuse last year than non-disabled people, Office for National Statistics data shows. Rates of abuse were particularly high among young disabled people and those with learning disabilities, mental health needs or social or behavioural impairments. In the year ending March 2020, around one […]
People are being unlawfully deprived of their liberty because professionals lack a common understanding about whether to use the Mental Capacity Act or Mental Health Act to do so, a report has found. The government-research by the King’s Fund found professionals tended to make decisions about which piece of legislation to use based on their […]
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The government is actively considering a policy that would allow care homes to insist that employees who work with people vulnerable to Covid-19 must be vaccinated, Community Care understands. The proposals being discussed could see the government either issue guidance for care homes that would allow them to adopt the policy with government backing, or […]
By Yogi Amin, Irwin Mitchell At a time when many councils are planning to make further cuts to social care budgets it is even more important to understand our legal rights to social care. These legal rights are not just for support in the home or in residential care but to support access to the […]
A council left over 1,000 people unlawfully deprived of their liberty in care homes or hospitals because they deemed their cases “low or medium priority” and so had not assessed them under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. In at least one case, Cheshire East Council had delayed assessing a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards case for […]