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Find out more at: www.qualitywatch.org.uk
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For more information on commissioning, have a look at our website mariecurie.org.uk/commissioning or get in touch at servicedevelopment@mariecurie.org.uk
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Highlights from Phase Three include:
Low income Londoners are becoming less financially resilient. The proportion of Londoners with low financial resilience has grown by 20% in the last two years, and will continue to grow through to 2020
Employment helps build financial resilience. Employment is the main driver of people improving their financial resilience; for people affected, welfare reforms are a driver of lower resilience, but they don’t tell the full story
Living standards fluctuate. Over two years a quarter of low income households in work lost their job at least once; improving job stability can help build resilience
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For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk/low-income-Londoners, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
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Find out more at: www.qualitywatch.org.uk
Death and dying - understanding the dataMarie Curie
Phil McCarvill, Marie Curie's Head of Policy and Public Affairs, presented at 'Improving outcomes at the end of life' on 9 July, 2013 in London.
He presented on the data from Marie Curie's report 'Death and Dying' which looks at variations on the provision, spending and identification of end of life services across the country.
It draws together and analyses data from the Marie Curie End of Life Care Atlas and other sources including the Nuffield Trust study and the VOICES survey of bereaved relatives.
For more information on commissioning, have a look at our website mariecurie.org.uk/commissioning or get in touch at servicedevelopment@mariecurie.org.uk
Latest findings from Policy in Practice's data led investigation into the causes and consequences of poverty in London were presented on 20 September 2018.
We recently shared the latest findings from our pan-london analysis of living standards, tracking 600,000 low income families across 19 London boroughs over two years. The work is unique in its use of large scale administrative data, linked over time, and its ability to look forward at poverty projections for individual households. The approach is being used by a dozen local authorities across the UK to target support.
Highlights from Phase Three include:
Low income Londoners are becoming less financially resilient. The proportion of Londoners with low financial resilience has grown by 20% in the last two years, and will continue to grow through to 2020
Employment helps build financial resilience. Employment is the main driver of people improving their financial resilience; for people affected, welfare reforms are a driver of lower resilience, but they don’t tell the full story
Living standards fluctuate. Over two years a quarter of low income households in work lost their job at least once; improving job stability can help build resilience
The future isn’t bright. Londoners on low incomes face a bleak future with an average drop in their disposable income of £100 p/w if rents and other livings costs continue to rise as expected.
For more information visit www.policyinpractice.co.uk/low-income-Londoners, email hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or call 0330 088 9242.
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In this slideshow, Saffron Cordery, Director of Policy and Strategy at the Foundation Trust Network, explores perspectives on social care cuts from the acute sector. Saffron spoke at the QualityWatch breakfast seminar ‘Social care for older adults: the impact of the cuts’, following the launch of our report Focus on: Social care for older people.
Find out more at: www.qualitywatch.org.uk
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Richard Kirby: Working together in the age of austerity
1. Health and Adult Social Care in
Walsall
May 2014
Working Together in the
Age of Austerity
2. A bit of background
• Walsall: ranked 30 / 326 LAs on indices of
multiple deprivation.
• Issues: deprivation, educational attainment,
poor health, diversity and inequality.
• Health and social care economy:
– Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
– Walsall Council Social Care (80% commissioned).
– Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group.
– Dudley & Walsall Mental Health NHS Trust.
3. Our shared financial challenge
• Walsall Adult Social Care:
– £14m savings delivered over last 3 years.
– 14/15 £63m net budget after £11m reduction.
– 2015/16: tbc but further reduction necessary.
• Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust:
– £230m turnover.
– c. £40m savings delivered in last 4 years.
– c. £50m needed in next 5 years.
4. The burning platform
• Large increases in emergency admissions to
hospital (>20% in last 2 years. NB. Stafford).
• Hospital bed occupancy >95%.
• Pressure on discharge and intermediate care: +1
day av LOS in last 3-4 months.
• Rising readmissions: 14% up to 16% in last year
• Over-reliance on nursing and residential home
care for step down
• Insufficient capacity in health and social care
market for care at home (1 week in April 120
clinically stable patients)
5. Our approach
• Renewed commitment to work together.
• Investment in community
– CCG investment in community health services
– Social care investment in reablement, home care
– Review of urgent care and walk in centres
• Locality-based multi-disciplinary teams.
• Improving intermediate care.
• Reduced reliance on institutional care
through targeted and joint early intervention
6. Prognosis . . .
• Some early signs of progress:
– Impact of reablement for “simple” discharges.
– 200 high users referred to community matrons
and 60% not readmitted since.
– Rise in emergency admissions halted.
– Increased end of life care in community.
• But lots still to do:
– Hospital capacity pressures.
– Co-ordination and capacity in the community.
– Managing the most vulnerable better.
7. Issues and next steps
• Austerity – 60% public sector reductions
still to come.
• Better Care Fund – national policy vs local
implementation.
• Integration – how far do we go?
• Institutional impact – FT application.
• Non-statutory players – community groups
and voluntary sector.