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Capacity to change: commissioning effective services for older people: workbook 2007
- Author:
- REID Andrew
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Government
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This workbook has been designed to assist local authority and health partners to gather data across the whole commissioning system to assist capacity planning which will then inform local commissioning plans. It will be of particular use when considering older people’s services. It is intended to be a practical tool for use by partnerships and can be easily adapted or customised for use in local areas. This workbook assists partners with this process by providing a framework for identifying existing services, service pressures, and financial data, all of which gives a firm basis for then agreeing a detailed and robust capacity plan within an overall Strategic Plan. The workbook has been developed and tested in a number of partnerships in Scotland.
A preliminary analysis of dementia in Wales
- Author:
- CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES INSPECTORATE WALES
- Publisher:
- Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This report provides a preliminary analysis relating to the current knowledge about and provision for people with dementia in Wales. The research involved fact finding from people with dementia, their carers, some expert professionals, and from desk top research. Three meetings were held; 1 attended by carers only and 2 attended by both carers and people with dementia. The sessions were structured around the idea of a dementia journey and people’s experience of this, what had worked well and what was difficult, as well as what needed improving. The report begins by discussing the issues raised at the meetings. It then moves on to the other information obtained during the preliminary analysis, looking at: the pattern of provision of social service and social care; and national and local studies and research. A significant finding is that there are wide variations in what is available across Wales and that this variability doesn’t seem to be related to need. The findings are considered in relation to the future commissioning of services. This analysis should be used to inform the second stage of the National Service Framework’s (NSF) review of older people.
Review of the adult care homes sector: focus on enforcement regulatory reviews
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 39
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper summarises the findings from the Focus on Enforcement review of the adult care home sector. The review focussed primarily on all forms of residential care, specifically on registered adult care providers who operate adult social care homes and nursing homes, respite care facilities and supported living accommodation. It covers those businesses that have a requirement to register with Care Quality Commission (CQC). Specificaly, it present findings and evidence regarding positive examples of good practice, or areas where it is felt that regulatory enforcement could be improved. The aim is to identify the impact and consequences of current enforcement practice, and to invite relevant regulators to respond with reforms. The emerging key themes from this Review are duplication in inspections, perceived lack of liaison between the CQC and commissioners, concerns about enforcement, a lack of benchmarking in the sector, and whether there is a role for external accreditation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Improving dementia services in England: an interim report
- Author:
- NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Dementia Strategy, launched on 3 February 2009, aims to transform the quality of dementia care in England. It sets out initiatives designed to make the lives of people with dementia, their carers and families better and more fulfilled. It aims to do this by increasing awareness of dementia, ensuring early diagnosis and intervention and radically improving the quality of care that people with the condition receive. This interim report into the implementation of the Strategy identified three risk areas where action is urgently needed. These are: inadequate information on costing leading to a risk that local decisions may not be well-evidenced; a lack of leadership, particularly at local commissioning level; a lack of strong levers such as benchmarking means there is a risk that dementia will not be given the priority status required. The report makes ten recommendations aimed at ameliorating these risks.
Falls and fractures: developing a local strategic needs assessment
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance note is part of the Department of Health's prevention package which aims to raise the focus on prevention as a means of ensuring good health, well-being and independence for older people. It should be read in conjunction with the Department of health guide 'Falls and fractures: effective interventions in social care and associated pathways'. It sets out: the case for assessing the level of needs to address risk of falls and incidence of falls in a local population; the clinical and social impact of a fall on an individual; the policy context for assessing local needs, the commissioning implications of needs assessed needs. It also includes a template for falls assessment for use by local commissioning communities.
How can we help older people not fall again?: implementing the Older People's NSF Falls Standard; support for commissioning good services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The negative impact of falls and related injuries on older people and health and social care systems is clear. The NSF for Older People Standard 6 aims to prevent falls and reduce their impacts. This document provides guidance, primarily for commissioners, on how to implement that standard and achieve benefits for older people and health and social care systems. ree key elements of good practice in commissioning services to address falls and their impacts were identified: cost benefit analyses that make the case for investment; strategic commissioning is in itself a valuable tool in developing and sustaining effective services; interventions are most beneficial when targeted on those at risk, based on agreed assessment processes, and integrated in a falls strategy developed with the full range of local services.
User guide for age discrimination benchmarking tool
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 16p., disk
- Place of publication:
- London
This is the first version of a tool designed to help those responsible for commissioning or delivering services at a local level to compare patterns of treatment at different ages with those in other areas. The tool displays comparative information on treatment rates at different ages, and on the balance between treatment rates for different age groups. The aim is to assist local consideration of how far local practice achieves National Service Framework (NSF) for Older People standard one. The tool is intended to complement and not replace other local action on this standard.
Meeting the challenge: improving management information for the effective commissioning of social care services for older people; handbook for middle managers and operational staff
- Author:
- WARBURTON Raymond
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 150p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report designed to help SSDs review and develop their management information for commissioning, and to develop their thinking on the kinds of information to be shared with other agencies and sectors in pursuit of better joint working.
Meeting the challenge: improving management information for the effective commissioning of social care services for older people; management summary
- Author:
- WARBURTON Raymond
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of a report intended to help SSDs review and develop their management information for commissioning, and to develop their thinking on the kinds of information to be shared with other agencies and sectors in pursuit of better joint working.
Services for people who are elderly: addressing the balance; the multi-disciplinary assessment of elderly people and the delivery of high quality continuing care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. NHS Health Advisory Service
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 197p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Review setting out to establish the current state of commissioning, purchasing and delivery of services for elderly people and to suggest ways of improving them. Includes chapters on: meeting the healthcare needs of older people; commissioning and purchasing services; providing services to older people; the concepts, problems and challenges that affect commissioners, purchasers and providers; a strategy for the future; and the way forward for purchasers, commissioners and providers. Includes checklists.