Contribution Through Volunteering is a new programme to build community capacity. CSV are running three regional workshops with In Control, to promote and develop this approach.
The King's Fund has launched a major review of health and social care under the leadership of an independent commission chaired by Kate Barker. The context for the review is a population in which people are living longer but often with long-term conditions, such as diabetes, heart failure and dementia.
Today is National Care Home Open Day 2013, an opportunity for care homes to open their homes to all those who want to engage with them and learn more about what they do.
Disability Rights UK have published a report: User-driven commissioning: Building on the 'lived experience' of disabled people. The report sets out the background to and learning from an informal national programme on user-driven commissioning.
Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) is developing an initiative to support Health and Well-Being (HWB) Boards wishing to help local communities maximise the inclusion and contribution of older and disabled people.
Quality social care means doing it right, especially when no one is looking. In March TLAP released a series of briefings that agreed a new definition of what quality support means.
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have launched a new section of their Dementia Gateway website 'Working alongside and supporting carers'. This new section gives practical tips and advice to health and social care staff to support carers caring for someone with Dementia.
Patients are increasingly involved in their own personal care planning, becoming key to the decisions made about their care. In addition new Personal Health Budgets (PHB) will give them the opportunity to manage funds and say how they are used.