A Demos report has found that more than half (55%) of people have experienced poor communications from NHS in the past five years and one in ten say their care has been affected as a result. It says good communication should not be seen as a ‘nice to have’, but as fundamental to the functioning of the NHS.
Preventing-needless-harms-caused-by-poor-comms-in-the-NHS-1.pdf (demos.co.uk)
The first parliamentary inquiry on young carers, supported by Carers Trust, reveals a lack of support severely affecting education, wellbeing, and future prospects for them. The report urges a national carers strategy, a properly resourced action plan, and collaboration with young carers for improved identification and support.
APPG on Young Carers and Young Adult Carers- Inquiry into life opportunities – Carers Trust
The latest falls prevention bulletin produced by North West health libraries has been published. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Falls Prevention Horizon Scanning | from North West Health Libraries (wordpress.com)
A Carers UK report on caring and health finds that a widespread lack of support and recognition from health and care services is severely damaging unpaid carers’ mental health. It highlights how people caring round the clock for older, disabled or seriously ill relatives do not have adequate support from statutory services that are in place to help them and finds many are steeped in thoughts of hopelessness, fear, and dread and are urgently in need of support.
State of Caring Survey 2023 – The impact of caring on: health | Carers UK
The latest Depression and Anxiety bulletin produced by the Mersey Care Evidently Better team is now available. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
The latest edition of the Learning Disabilities and Autism bulletin produced by the Mersey Care Evidently Better team is now available. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
The latest Community Health bulletin produced by Mersey Care Evidently Better team is now available. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.
Preventive services focused on reducing the number of avoidable admissions to hospital and residential care would optimise hospital flow and discharge this winter, adult social care directors have said. Improving care at home, providing more sheltered, extra care and dementia-focused housing, investment in crisis resolution intermediate care, and better information and advice for older and disabled people would prevent many from needing hospital or residential care, reducing pressures across health and social care every winter, says the report for the County Councils Network.
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has no confidence that Government will deliver the new hospitals it promised, a highly critical report has said. The PAC is extremely concerned at the New Hospital Programme’s (NHP) lack of progress, given the prominence and importance of the 2020 commitment to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. Very little has happened from the perspective of patients since the Government’s original commitment. The report warns that it is highly unlikely even to construct the 32 new hospitals that it is now aiming to complete by 2030, after the commitment to build all 40 by then was abandoned in May.
