New advice for councils on meeting Care Act 2014 requirements to ensure people, families and carers lead development of their own care and support plans has been launched today.
Personalisation has been a policy aspiration of the Department of Health for over 25 years. Practitioners and managers have had concerns, however, that people receiving a personal budget - particularly a direct payment are more at risk of abuse.
AI - Artificial Intelligence? No, Appreciative Inquiry -a significant innovation in 'action research' and a powerful method for asset based interventions, according to the Alliance of Providers.
I'm Still Me is a co-produced narrative which sets out how older people want health and social care services to work together to help improve the quality of their lives.
Think Local Act Personal welcomes today's launch of the Coalition for Collaborative Care and their vision for person-centred, coordinated care and support.
The Care Act (2014) describes a new duty for local authorities to shape local markets of care and support to ensure their quality, diversity and sustainability for the whole population.
Councils developing their information and advice strategies to meet new Care Act requirements by April 2015 have even more help on hand thanks to an online strategy tool published today in draft version.
Norman Lamb (announced in a statement last week) revealed that the government's flagship programme is the likely mechanism to fully integrate health and care spending across the country. He has set 2018 as the target date to pool all health and care spending and believes that a national reorganisation will not be necessary to achieve this objective.
A new framework to help Health and Wellbeing Boards across England to build stronger local communities and capacity for self-management is published today by Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) and Public Health England.