The dust is settling after the tumult of election speculation, briefing and analysis, which means the Social Care News blog is open again for business. And what better way to kick things off than with Mental Health Awareness Week which …
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 …
Are we more anxious as a nation? Are the years of austerity, threats of terrorism, worries about our health and the privations of old age taking their toll - more so than in previous generations? Whatever the reality, the Mental …
There’s a joke going around the policy circuit that, at the end of time there will only be two things left: cockroaches and a couple of people trying to work out how to integrate health and social care. A cynical …
Safeguarding, personalisation, empowerment, reablement, shared decision-making, person-centred working, recovery, care planning, choice and control, dignity, risk decision-making, consent – some of the key policy terms, processes and concepts that underpin and inform health and social care practice, or endemic and …