Last week the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, set out his commitment to reform adult social care and deliver a National Care Service.
‘With more people living longer and, rightly, having rising expectations of their care and support, our health and care services need to transform to deliver the improved outcomes and experiences our communities deserve, within a sustainable system,’ explains Geoff Alltimes, …
The National Children and Adult Services Conference 2014 is just over a week away, which can mean only one thing: the Social Care News blog is champing at the bit to deliver coverage of this landmark care and support event, …
If you are tasked with the job of improving your patients’ health and the health of your population, or you are responsible for reducing A&E admissions, outpatient visits and general practice consultations, then book your place at the 16th annual …
Regular blog readers know we like to feature updates from our communication colleagues in other departments, especially when those updates may be of use to those of us working in - or with - the care and support sector. With …
The Self Care Forum, established in 2011, is the national UK organisation dedicated to helping people take care of themselves. Founding member Gopa Mitra explains their mission to further the reach of self care and embed it into everyday life …
World Mental Health Day 2014 marked 24 hours of focused activity on promoting better mental health around the world. In many ways though it's already been a 'mental health year' given the flurry of announcements, initiatives, consultations and new commitments …
The Social Care News blog will always promote initiatives intended to better support those working in - or receiving help from - the care and support sector. Today, Lyn Romeo, the Chief Social Worker for Adults, launches an important new …
This week, Time to Change released data revealing public attitudes towards mental illness have improved significantly in recent years, with the biggest annual improvement in the last decade taking place in 2013. Sue Baker, the organisation’s director, takes us through …
As a department we are always looking for new and effective ways to communicate our work and that of our sector partners. To this end, we hope visitors to this blog are also aware of the excellent Dementia Challenge site …
The Department of Health has published a new report setting out the government’s plans to improve access to mental health care services. Significantly, it introduces the intention to roll out national waiting time standards for the first time by April …