scholarly journals Are radical changes to health and social care paving the way for fewer services and new user charges?

BMJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. j4279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailen Sutaria ◽  
Peter Roderick ◽  
Allyson M Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
User Charges ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Living to 100 years and beyond: Drivers and implications

European View ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
George W. Leeson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
First Century ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

The world is ageing, both at an individual and a population level, and population ageing is truly a global phenomenon. The emergence of large numbers of centenarians has accompanied this development and the twenty-first century promises to be the century of centenarians. The number of centenarians in Europe increased from around 57,000 in 2006 to almost 90,000 in 2011. By 2100 the number is expected to reach around 1.4 million in England and Wales alone. This century of centenarians will be challenging in both the developed and the emerging economies. The trend has fundamental consequences for the way in which individuals view and live these ever-extending lives, but also for the way in which societal infrastructures (education, workplaces, housing, transport, and health and social care) will need to be adapted to the needs of extreme-aged populations. More importantly, perhaps, our perception of old age needs a dramatic reappraisal.

A primary care practitioner’s experience of the Care Quality Commission’s registration process

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
James Wise
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Dental Practices ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

The Health and Social Care Act of 2008 has changed the way that health care is to be provided and regulated in England so that all users of healthcare services can expect a similar standard whatever service they use. For the first time private dental practices will be included. This article sets out the challenges faced by a single-handed practitioner when trying to register for this latest layer of bureaucracy.

The challenge of integration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cribb
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Central Device ◽  
The Way

This chapter analyses the increasingly influential idea that healthcare systems, or health and social care systems more broadly, need to be better integrated—that both services and the experiences of individuals need to be less ‘fractured’ and that this depends upon attending to the overall architecture of systems. In order to approach the integration agenda, it is worth acknowledging the ‘problem’ that gives rise to it. The agenda is closely bound up with divisions and boundaries that are both necessary and a source of difficulties. The way in which health systems seek to provide diverse goods is through a division of labour that structures both services and roles. Yet the necessary division of labour inevitably and notoriously creates problems. Perhaps the central device through which health policy addresses and manages this tension—between differentiated provision and consolidated needs—is by supporting both specialism and generalism.

scholarly journals Reflections from Scotland: Difficult Decisions Ahead

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Hilary Patrick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Vulnerable Adults ◽  
The Way

<p align="LEFT">This article looks at recent developments in Scottish mental health and incapacity law. Whilst Scotland clearly leads the way in mental health and social care law reform in the UK, its incapacity legislation is under strain. Scotland is struggling with the implications of <em>HL v UK</em> which, because of problems with the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, appear even more complex than in England and Wales. Scotland is consulting on new laws to protect vulnerable adults, but lags behind England and Wales in its use of appropriate adults when people with mental disorders are interviewed by the police.</p>

scholarly journals Ontology Based Text Mining Framework for Vulnerability Assessment in Health and Social Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3809-3813
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Screening Tools ◽  
Patient Status ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Fragmented Data ◽  
The Way

The measure of advanced data that is made and utilized is gradually growing alongside the development of refined equipment and programming. What's more, true information arrive in a decent variety of structures and can be massively cumbersome. This has increased the requirement for great procedures that can find and uncover engaging realities and valuable data from these information. Text Mining (TM), which is an intricate procedure; has been effectively utilized for this reason. Text mining on the other hand alluded to as content data mining, pretty much identical to content examination, can be characterized as the way toward extricating great data from content. Text mining includes the way toward organizing the information, determining designs inside the organized information and in conclusion translation and disclosure of the yield. This paper gives overview on Text mining. Toward the end, this paper presents ontology system to adapt up to extreme social media textual data. We depict vulnerability assessment model intended to help patient management in health and social care. Such a framework isn't intended to supplant existing health and social assessment models but instead to supplement them by giving an all-encompassing image of the vulnerabilities looked by a given patient. Actually, it ought to be viewed as a screening tools for health and social care workers. One key part of the demonstrating structure is the capacity to give customized at this point multi-dimensional assessments of risk of dependent on fragmented data about the patient status, similar to the case in screening situations.

The new Care Quality Commission inspection procedures

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 938-939
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses recent changes to the way in which the Care Quality Commission (CQC) conducts its health and social care inspections

scholarly journals Hybrid simulation for health and social care: The way forward, or more trouble than it's worth?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally C. Brailsford ◽  
Joe Viana ◽  
Stuart Rossiter ◽  
Andrew Amos Channon ◽  
Andrew J. Lotery
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Hybrid Simulation ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Mental Health and Social Care and Social Interventions

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2328
Author(s):  
Jed Boardman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Common Parlance ◽  
The Way

In common parlance, the term ‘social’ is used in many senses ranging from the way society is organised to the rank or status someone has in society; to activities that involve meeting with other people; to the experience, behaviour and interaction of persons forming groups; and to promoting companionship and communal activities. [...]

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