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Commissioning care services for older people: achievements and challenges in London
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
What services are available to older people is determined to a large extent by how care is commissioned locally. This paper examines how care is being commissioned in six London boroughs, and how local authorities are working with their primary care trust partners, to transform the mix of services on offer. It shows how service users are involved, and assesses the extent which commissioners understand and manage the market and respond to need. It also highlights factors that are helping or hindering commissioning practice across the capital.
New hurdles for integrated commissioning?
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 13(5), October 2005, pp.21-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Government's vision for social care highlights choice and control by individuals. This paper draws on findings from a King's Fund study and considers how far collaborative commissioning is ready to meet the challenges of ensuring a diverse menu of flexible, integrated services for people using either direct payments or individual budgets. It concludes that more needs to be done to build commissioning skills, and other investment in developing the care market will be needed to deliver the Green Paper's aspirations.
Policy framework for integrated care for older people
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 26p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Older people often require a range of services from different sources. Integrated care offers a co-ordinated approach to meet their often complex needs. This working paper acts as a checklist for national and regional policy-makers across Europe to use in drawing up their own integrated care policies. It can also be used by service users, their carers, and older people’s organisations, to assess the policies in place in their countries or regions. The publication was funded by the European Commission, and is one of several publications produced by the Care and Management of Services for Older People in Europe Network (CARMEN), which is run by the European Health Management Association (EHMA).
The business of caring
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- London Age, Autumn 2005, pp.2-3.
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
The author outlines the main finding of the King's Fund Care Services Inquiry. The report, the 'Business of Caring' was a year-long investigation into care services for people in London, and includes a number of recommendations for action by central and local government, the NHS, inspectors and regulators.
Partnership pressures
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.5.02, 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the government emphasis on acute services is endangering developing partnerships between health and social care.
Quality services for carers
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(1), January 2000, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The Government will be introducing national standards for carer support services to which all local authority and health authority services will be expected to comply. The author, chair of the quality standards steering group, King's Fund, describes some of the key features of the new standards and stresses that although they have been drafted primarily for carer services they will also apply to mainstream statutory services, such as hospitals, GPs, nursing, housing and home care.
Quality services for carers
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(2), December 1999, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The Government will be introducing national standards for carer support services to which all local authority and health authority services will be expected to comply. Chair of the quality standards steering group, King's Fund, describes some of the key features of the new standards and stresses that although they have been drafted primarily for carer services they will also apply to mainstream statutory services, such as hospitals, GPs, nursing, housing and homecare.
Caring about carers: a new direction?
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(3), June 1999, pp.3-6.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Looks at how the first national strategy for carers promises a new direction and new emphasis in policy, with measures which will enhance the quality of life for all carers. The strategy attempts to address the current gap between policy and carers' experience, but many questions remain about its coherence with other policies and implementation locally. Suggests criteria for evaluating the success of the strategy and its impact on carers.
Carer support: time for a change of direction; a policy discussion paper
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 19p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paper describing the current situation regarding support for carers, in the context of the new health and social care agenda. Suggests what needs to be considered as national and local policies are developed and implemented. Draws on the work of the Carers Impact development programme based at the King's Fund.
Carers: making the connections
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(6), December 1998, pp.240-245.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Looks at how the development of a national strategy for carers underlines the importance of making the connections between all the different policies which impinge on carers. Explains how this needs to be mirrored at a local level, where there are some moves to embed support to carers within mainstream health and social services. Argues that achieving positive change for carers needs not only more coherence about carers' relationship with the whole system of care, but also better ways of monitoring services.