Navigating the high seas of care and support. Head of Think Local Act Personal Caroline Speirs explains how her organisation's work with the Social Care Institute for Excellence and Shared Lives Plus on a new Social Care Innovation Network could chart a course to new and better services.
For advocates of traditional community social work, it must be pleasing to see the growing popularity of strengths-based social care, says Ewan King, Director of Business Development at the Social Care Institute for Excellence. For while, social work – and …
Ewan King, director of business development and delivery, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) looks forward to discussing this and other hot topics at this week's NCASC conference in Manchester. It is easy to forget in immensely difficult …
With their focus on the needs and wants of the individual, the new integration accelerator sites have started in the right place, says Ewan King, director of business development and delivery at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). What …
It’s a welcome return to the DHSC Social Care News blog for the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s Chief Executive Tony Hunter. This time he wants to remind you of a marvellous mutual care and support scheme which is …
SCIE’s Ewan King suggests that, when it comes to integration, some individuals, businesses, and health and social care organisations spend too much time talking about structures and not enough about people. Time to reverse that ratio! This is certainly the …
…but what do they mean for social care? That’s the question Ewan King is asking in his latest blog for DHSC’s Social Care News. Integrated Care Systems and Integrated Care Partnerships – until recently accountable care systems and partnerships – …
“The closer integration of health and social care has been a goal for many years, receiving broad support across the political spectrum,” observes Deborah Rozansky, health and social care consultant and associate at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). …
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 …
"Sunshine might be in short supply in Bournemouth next week as delegates gather for the NCAS conference, but a few days by the seaside can be rejuvenating," says Paul Burstow, Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, as he …
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