CIPFA publication calls for an approach to funding adult social care where adequate funding is provided in the short term for services to recover and deal with current challenges.
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Local heath and care systems lack a shared understanding of the causes of hospital discharge delays in their area and the best ways to tackle them, according to a report from the King’s Fund.
Just 5% of UK public organisations are paying the minimum price for homecare calculated by the Homecare Association.
At least one third of adult social care leaders in England need to find another £84m of cuts heading into winter, according to the autumn survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
Two years into its 10-year plan to overhaul adult social care, the government has delayed proposals to cap the lifetime care costs a person pays and scaled back plans for reforming the system it set out in December 2021.
More than £1bn of the £1.7bn committed to reforming the adult social care system in December 2021 has been diverted to other care priorities.
In September, the DHSC published an open call for evidence to support their review of arrangements between NHS bodies and local authorities.
As part of its Next steps to put people at the heart of care plan, published in April, the Department of Health and Social Care is establishing a unit to oversee innovation and improvement across adult social care.