“Social care is very personal” says Alice Maynard, Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline committee. “People have their own care needs and we must understand them to make sure they receive the best possible …
In the summer of this year, a bold statement of intent was published setting out a single view of high quality adult social care. The creation of commissioners, providers, staff, national bodies and people who use services, their families and …
Reablement, crisis response, home-based care, bed-based care… these are all terms that people who use services, their families and carers may not be familiar with. Well, they’re all types of intermediate care as it happens – but what does that …
NICE have a consultation underway seeking views from the sector on a list of proposed topics, with an encouragement to suggest new ones too. The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out a responsibility for the National Institute for …
The Department of Health opened up a public consultation last spring to seek people’s views on new topics for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to produce social care quality guidance and standards on from 2015 onwards. …
The desire to protect the vulnerable and to ensure distressed ill people are treated humanely and above all safely has motivated all of us working in - or with - the care and support sector to do more. The Department …