As you may be aware, Jon Rouse has left the Department of Health. This blog is therefore no longer active.
Whether you are a carer, a social worker, someone with autism, a friend or relative of someone with autism, a GP, an employer, a clinician, a care worker, a community outreach worker, or someone with a hidden impairment associated with …
For the last few months we have been hard at work on the detail of the social care funding reforms that ministers announced in February 2013. The work has included drafting the relevant Care Bill clauses and a large amount …
Last week, Camilla Cavendish published the report of her review of the role of healthcare assistants and support workers in the NHS and social care. Abuse and neglect in our care homes and hospitals scandalises us all. Winterbourne View and …
One in four people in the UK will experience a mental health issue over their lifetime. This may be a familiar statistic to many of you – but familiar or not, it should be a cause of concern to all …
The government has used the Spending Round to create a £3.8 billion pot to be invested in local pooled budgets to drive integration of health and social care services. It heralds a real opportunity to redesign services around the needs …
Watching the BBC’s Panorama programme on care homes this week (17 June), I asked myself, who has the right influence to ensure a dominant culture of compassionate care within a care home or care service? Is it the organisation’s CEO, …
We are now drawing to the close of Carers Week and this has made me reflect on the positive advances we have made and will make in the future in how we improve the quality of care and support, including …
The publication of the Care Bill heralds wide ranging changes in the way care is given to those who need it most. It will be the most comprehensive reform of social care legislation in 60 years. However, much work lies …
