Care and support White Paper published
The Department of Health has published the Caring for our future: reforming care and support White Paper, which sets out the vision for a reformed care and support system. Read more »
Tag Archives: Regulation
Draft Care and Support Bill published
The draft Care and Support Bill has been published. It creates a single law for adult care and support, replacing more than a dozen different pieces of legislation. Read more »
Living with dementia magazine, November 2011 issue
The November 2011 edition of the Living with dementia magazine is available to download from the Alzheimer’s Society website. Read more »
NHS South of England launched
NHS South of England officially came into effect on 3rd October 2011. It is made up of three former strategic health authorities NHS South Central, NHS South East Coast and NHS South West. Read more »
Action needed to improve dementia care
The Alzheimer’s Society says that action needed to improve dementia care, following the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s second annual report on the state of health care and adult social care in England. Read more »
Alzheimer’s drugs to be made available to all
The final NICE guidance means the drugs Aricept, Exelon and Reminyl will be available on prescription to people in the early and moderate stages of Alzheimer’s and Ebixa will be available to people in the late stages. Read more »
No more age discrimination on the NHS
The NHS must never discriminate based on age – that was the message given by Care Services Minister Paul Burstow today as he announced that the Department of Health will not be seeking any exceptions to the planned implementation of the Equality Act 2010. Read more »
CQC to scan Twitter for care complaints
A recent article in the Health Service Journal reveals that the Care Quality Commission is working on an IT system to monitor social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for complaints about care homes and healthcare providers. Read more »
Care home Dementia Quality Mark
In the South West we have adopted a collaborative approach to develop a standard Dementia Quality Mark (DQM) to assure the quality of care being provided to people living with dementia in care homes. Read more »
Care Quality Commission publishes five-year strategy
The strategy sets out what the Care Quality Commission aims to achieve for people who use health care and social care over the next five years. Read more »