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Content ArticleThe recently published results of the British Social Attitudes survey and the NHS Staff Survey, and recent performance data provide an in-depth backdrop to the health and care landscape in 2024 - a year that's likely to see a general election called. Ruth Robertson is joined by a panel of experts from The King's Fund to discuss the state of health and care. Throughout the conversation, the panel reflects on the prospect of a general election and the impact this might have on health and care services, both in the run up and after. They also discuss the tendency to rely on short-termism in policy-making, and why a long-term strategy might help build a stronger health and care system that will last.
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Content ArticleWhen Adam Luck’s mother, Ann, was admitted to hospital with a suspected stroke, it was the beginning of a distressing seven-week stay. The previously cheerful 82-year-old became stuck in a dysfunctional health system. Her story is presented here via her son Adam’s diary of her hospitalisation.
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Content ArticleThe NHS England 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance reconfirms the ongoing need to recover core services and improve productivity, making progress in delivering the key NHS Long Term Plan ambitions and continuing to transform the NHS for the future.
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Content ArticleThe Health Research Authority, the National Institute for Health and Care Research and a host of organisations across the UK have been working together to bring about changes which will drive up standards in health and social care research. Together they have signed up to a Shared Commitment to public involvement.
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Content ArticleThousands of people with sight loss remain 'Out of Sight' in the hidden scandal of vision rehabilitation. Life changes after sight loss, sometimes overnight, often in dramatic ways. Done well, vision rehabilitation equips people with new ways to stay independent: to get out and about, adapt their work, shop and enjoy hobbies. However, the reality is stark. 86% of local authorities in England miss the 28-day recommended deadline to explore a person’s needs. Threadbare services mean people wait without the support they’re entitled to, at risk of physical accidents and injuries as well as mental health crises. The RNIB are calling on all UK political parties to commit to ensuring blind and partially sighted people get the support they need, when they need it.
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Audit Scotland: NHS in Scotland 2023 (22 February 2024)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in NHS Scotland
The Scottish Government needs to develop a clear national strategy for health and social care to address the pressures on services, says a review by Audit Scotland. Significant changes are needed to ensure the financial sustainability of Scotland's health service. Growing demand, operational challenges and increasing costs have added to the financial pressures the NHS was already facing. Its longer-term affordability is at risk without reform. -
Content ArticleSet up in January 2023, the Times Health Commission was a year-long projected established to consider the future of health and social care in England in the light of the pandemic, the growing pressure on budgets, the A&E crisis, rising waiting lists, health inequalities, obesity and the ageing population. Its recommendations are intended to be pragmatic, practical, deliverable and able to be potentially taken up by any political party or government, present or future.
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A new report published by Carers Scotland shows the devasting impact the health and social care crisis is having on the health of Scotland’s 800,000 unpaid carers. -
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CQC: State of Care 2022/23
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Care Quality Commission (CQC)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) State of Care is an annual assessment of health care and social care in England. The report looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve. -
Content ArticleThe Patients Association spoke to Christiana Melam, Marie Adams and Susan Leach during Patient Partnership Week to talk about all things to do with social prescribing. Christiana is the Chief Executive of the National Association of Link Workers, the UK's professional network for social prescribing link workers. She is an advocate for diversity, inclusion, coproduction, bottom-up approaches, social justice, empowering people and reducing inequality. Marie is a social prescriber, and Susan is a patient who has used social prescribing as part of her healthcare. Susan talked candidly about the relationship with Marie and how Marie has helped her cope with some serious challenges in her life.
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Content ArticleThis report provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.52 million people working in it. Topics covered include: recent trends in workforce supply and demand, employment overview, recruitment and retention, demographics, pay, qualification rates, and future workforce projections.
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Content ArticleThis report presents findings from a rapid evidence review into improvement cultures in health and adult social care settings. The review aims to inform CQC’s approach to assessing and encouraging improvement, improvement cultures and improvement capabilities of services, while maintaining and strengthening CQC’s regulatory role. It also identifies gaps in the current evidence base.
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Content ArticleThe Disability Royal Commission held Public hearing 33 in Brisbane from 8 to 10 May 2023. Public hearing 33 was a case study about two young men, brothers Kaleb and Jonathon. Their names have been changed to protect their identity. The brothers have disability and the hearing examined their experience of violence, abuse, neglect and deprivation of human rights. They held the hearing to ask why and how it happened. In total 13 witnesses gave evidence. This video is a summary of the report.
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Content ArticleThe report from the International Labour Organization describes the results of a special analysis of data from the Labour Force Surveys (LFS) of 56 countries which provided data about health and social care workers in sufficient detail to distinguish between different occupational groups within the workforce. The report covers analyses for 29 countries in Europe and 27 from other regions of the world. This analysis can help to highlight specific occupation groups and countries which are at heightened risk of decent work deficits and demographic imbalances.
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Content ArticleThis service model brings together the good practice taking place in local areas, and that which has previously been described for this group of people. It recognises that improvements are typically underpinned by visionary leadership, a focus on human rights based approaches, workforce development, co-production and a preparedness to reflect and learn. It aims to support commissioners across health and social care to work together to commission the range of services and support required to meet the needs of this diverse group.
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Content ArticleThis framework sets out what good digital working looks like for care providers and local authorities with responsibility for adult social care in England.
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Content ArticleAs the NHS is approaching its 75th birthday, this report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change proposes how the NHS needs to transform if it is to survive.
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Content ArticleVisits from loved ones are vital to the health and wellbeing of people receiving care in care homes, hospitals and hospices. There have been concerns about visiting restrictions in health and care settings for several years, and the restrictions introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these concerns. While those restrictions were in place at the time to control the risk of transmission and keep people safe, it was detrimental for loved ones to have been kept apart or not to have had someone supporting them in hospital. Guidance is now clear that visiting should be encouraged and facilitated in all circumstances. This consultation seeks views on introducing secondary legislation to protect visiting as a fundamental standard across CQC-registered settings so that no one is denied reasonable access to visitors while they are resident in a care home, or a patient in hospital or a hospice. This includes accompanying people to hospital appointments (outpatients or diagnostic visits). Related reading on the hub: Visiting restrictions and the impact on patients and their families: a relative's perspective It’s time to rename the ‘visitor’: reflections from a relative
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Patient Safety Learning has developed a unique set of patient safety standards, resources and tools to help organisations not only establish clearly defined patient safety aims and goals, but also support their delivery and demonstrate achievement. This page provides an overview of our Standards with links to further information. -
Content ArticleSocial care in England entered the pandemic in a fragile state. With much already written about the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the social care sector, this new report from the Nuffield Trust in collaboration with the Care Policy and Evaluation Centre analyses the structural and systemic factors that influenced that initial national response. Covid had far-reaching impacts on social care and exacerbated many longstanding issues. This work seeks to highlight progress and identify where action is needed to create a more resilient system.
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Content ArticleThe Relatives and Residents Association (R&RA) is conducting a survey which aims to gather evidence on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on access to healthcare services for those living in care homes. R&RA is seeking responses from people who were living in care homes at any point during the pandemic, or from their relatives and friends. Our analysis of the responses will be shared with the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, including anonymised examples. The survey should take around 10-15 mins to complete.
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Content ArticleOn Saturday 17 September 2022, the fourth annual World Patient Safety Day took place, established as a day to call for global solidarity and concerted action to improve patient safety. Medication safety was chosen as the focused for World Patient Safety Day 2022 due to the substantial burden of medication-related harm at all levels of care. In this report, the World Health Organization (WHO) provides an overview of activities in the countries that observed World Patient Safety Day 2022 to make this event.
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Content ArticleClinicians in emergency departments (EDs) will see babies and young children with injuries that may be non-accidental. If the cause of such injuries is missed, there is a risk of further harm to the child. However, making a judgement about whether an injury might be accidental or not is complex and difficult. This Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) investigation explores the issues that influence the diagnosis of non-accidental injuries in infants (children under 1 year of age) who visit an ED. Specifically, it explores the information and support available to ED clinicians to help them to make such a diagnosis. Due to the nature of the subject matter no specific incident was used to explore this area of care. Instead, the investigation analysed 10 serious incident reports (reports written by NHS trusts when a serious patient safety incident occurs) to identify the factors that contribute to non-accidental injuries not being diagnosed. These factors were grouped into themes, which informed the terms of reference for the investigation.
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The King's Fund: Social care 360 (2 March 2023)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Social care
The King's Fund has launched the latest edition of their annual Social Care 360 report analysing the 12 key trends in adult social care in England. The year’s report paints a picture of a worsening crisis in adult social care with more requests for publicly funded social care in England than ever before, while the number of people receiving it continues to fall.
