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Michelle Dyson

Michelle Dyson

Michelle Dyson is Director General for Social care at the Department of Health and Social Care.

Data and the drive to transform social care

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Care and support, Carers, Consultations and surveys, Information sharing, Innovation, Integrated care, Social care reform, Workforce
Data cloud - numbers in virtual space

Data is fundamental to achieving good quality, person-centred care and has the power to transform its delivery. Michelle Dyson, Director General for Social Care at the Department of Health and Social Care, explains its importance and how you can help transform services through information, evidence and collaboration.

People at the heart of care

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Social care long term plan poster

The desire to reform, rebuild and strengthen social care has been a longstanding ambition of successive governments and, while these objectives may be simply put, achieving them has often been anything but. This week, we took another big step forward with the publication of People at the Heart of Care, our adult social care system reform white paper.

Signs of real hope

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Care and support, coronavirus, Information sharing, Public health
Surgically gloved hands holding a syringe and vial of va

After months and months of restrictions, continued uncertainty around work, education and our general health, and the shared anxiety about the future course of this pandemic, we are now in the unusual position of receiving some cautiously optimistic news. Michelle Dyson, our Director General for Social Care, considers what the news of potentially effective COVID-19 vaccines means for the care sector - and the country as a whole.

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