Mark Osterloh is a Senior Policy Manager at the Department of Health.
The Health Foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK, has £1.5 million available for up to 20 teams to test and develop innovative ideas to improve health care delivery …
We don't often post straight news stories or announcements on the Social Care News blog, but we will make the exception when we come across something useful and interesting. Over to the Health Foundation and their launch of a new …
Meet and greet: Wednesday 2 November, 1.15 – 2.15pm, DH Lounge (E30) Members of the Better Care Support team (BCST) will be attending this year’s National Children and Adults Services Conference (NCAS) on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd November. Rosie …
10th October 2016 saw the start of the second 7 days of action campaign week - telling the web of stories of families who have a family member in an ATU who they want to get home,
Meet and greet: Thursday 3 November, 3.15 – 3.45pm, DH Lounge (E30) Rob Mitchell and Mark Harvey are the current co-chairs of the National Adult Principal Social Worker Network. The network acts as one of the key organisations for the development …
We really love Manchester – and we’d say that even if the Department of Health wasn’t presenting at NCAS this year! And we love the venue too – the Manchester Central Convention Complex, formerly the city’s main railway terminus, now …
The National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCAS 2016) will be making a welcome return to the northern, policy powerhouse that is Manchester! And, as is now traditional, the Social Care News blog will be covering all three days of the …
If you work in a council communications team or know of former social workers mulling the prospect of a return to the profession then the deadline is looming for applications to receive free refresher training. We think it's an opportunity …
It’s a fact of modern life that many of us will become carers at some point. For many of you that responsibility has come much sooner than you anticipated, but it is a responsibility you bear with compassion and love. …
We're not a terribly newsy site here at the Social Care News blog but we are always happy to share information which is both positive and useful. The launch of a new guide supporting the provision of supported housing in the …
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