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The CQC findings from a local system review of Sheffield - 1 of 20 reviews of LA areas looking at how people move through the health & social care system, with a focus on how services work together. The reviews look at how hospitals, community health services, GP practices, care homes & homecare agencies work together to provide seamless care for older people living in a local area. This review found there was a system-wide commitment to serving the people of Sheffield but that system partners had not always worked effectively together. It highlighted a number of areas where improvements are needed to ensure those responsible for providing health & social care services work better together. |
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CQC publishes review of how local health & social care systems work together in Sheffield LGA responds to Care Crisis Review report LGA responds to ADASS Budget Survey on adult social care The King's Fund comment on the Health & Social Care Committee’s report on integrated care KF: Our work on joined-up health & care services Landmark integration report dismisses privatisation nonsense, says NHS Confed LGA: Loneliness initiatives cutting emergency hospital admissions by 20% WAG: “While caring for their loved one, it’s crucial carers ensure they care for themselves” The NHS ‘Black Hole’ sucks in both unlimited funding and political arguments This problem is not going to be solved by taxing a few people a lot more |
Many have tried before! |
The CEs of NHS England & NHS Improvement have set out the plans which will help to free up thousands of hospital beds and ease pressures next winter. Shorter stays will benefit patients who would otherwise be stuck in hospital when they are well enough to leave as well as freeing up beds for those who are sicker. Many older people, particularly those who are frail and may have dementia, actually deteriorate while in hospital – a stay of more than 10 days leads to 10 years’ muscle ageing for people most at risk. Nearly 350,000 patients spend more than 3 weeks in a hospital each year. That is around a fifth of beds, or the equivalent of 36 hospitals. Some patients need to be there for medical reasons but many do not. The NHS, working with local authorities, aims to reduce the number of long staying patients by around a quarter, freeing up more than 4,000 beds in time for the winter surge. |
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NHS England: NHS launches plan to improve patient care by cutting long hospital stays NHS Confed: Winter crisis is now year-long crisis, suggests new report WAG; Use them (muscles) or lose them! Care shouldn’t end at the hospital exit Would a policy of ‘no co-operation with the private sector’ be sensible? Something for IPSIS to start with! But are the NHS & LAs flexible enough to make the necessary changes to service delivery? |
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DHSC: Measles outbreaks across England Home Office: Doctors & nurses to be taken out of Tier 2 visa cap NHS Digital: GPs urged to make most of cancer screening dashboard |
SME Supplier Locator update... | ||
UK Government and public sector spend with SME’s is continually on the increase and by 2020, it is the stated intent of Cabinet Office that £1 of every £3 spent on government contracts goes to SME’s. Against this ambitious backdrop, the WiredGov Supplier Locator service has been developed specifically to embrace the SME Agenda and provide the ideal platform for SME’s to promote their services, solutions, accreditation and success stories directly to our ever increasing audience across all government and public sector verticals and Tier 1 suppliers. Recent arrivals to the SME Supplier Locator service include:
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The system of post-school education in England is not a system. It is unbalanced in favour of F/T university degrees, and, as a result, offers poor value for money to individuals, taxpayers & the economy. The 2012 reforms to university financing have failed to create an effective market allowing undergraduate degrees to dominate when this might not be in the student or the country’s best interest. The low quality & inconsistent availability of options, caused in part by a lack of funding, have made the problem worse. The Committee has found that the decision to switch almost all higher education funding to tuition fees financed by student loans has hidden the true cost of public spending on higher education. They have also led to a collapse in flexible & part-time learning, with student numbers decreasing over the last 6 years by 60%. Careers for life are disappearing, and the ability to retrain will become increasingly necessary to succeed in the modern economy. The report calls for a new deal for post-school education funding which promotes all types of learning regardless of where or how it takes place. |
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PC&PE: Students need a new fairer deal for studying after school PC&PE: Higher education market not working in interests of students or taxpayers A skilled workforce helps increase productivity BCS joins minister and businesses to defend apprenticeship levy City Regions and FE: not much power and even less responsibility Brexit funding gap could hit Welsh colleges CBI: Fix broken Apprenticeship Levy to deliver high-quality training Top college principals to drive improvements in further education New teaching standards for further education and work-based learning workforce |
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WAG: Letting Fees Bill to make renting simpler and fairer The new ESPO products catalogue 2018/19 has arrived ACMD: Drug-related harms in homeless populations - public evidence gathering day |
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Brexit microsite (Information about the Article 50 process and our negotiations for a new partnership with the EU) Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland: Statement on the Sewel Convention ScotGov: Change needed to protect Scotland in trade deals LGA responds to the Brexit Health Alliance's briefing on public health LGA: Government urged to clarify access to vital infrastructure funding post-Brexit EHRC: Joint statement: the UK's human rights & equality bodies on Brexit IFS: Using the Barnett Formula to allocate replacement funding for EU schemes could cost Wales dear IFG: 'Extraordinary secrecy' hampering government preparations for Brexit BfB: Baroness Ruth Deech on Brexit BfB: English Idiom By Robert Colls |
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