From production and management of services to workforce development and community engagement strategy, local authorities and councillors are exploring the potential of digital media for co-production and enhancement of services. The fast pace of technology means greater and more powerful means of collaboration and transformation of services and the workforce.
Tag Archives: social care
Dementia care will reach many
September 12, 2014
Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, Featured Article, Norfolk
Actress and comedian Helen Lederer speaks.
Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
Friday, September 12, 2014
6:30 AM
With one in three over-65s expected to die with dementia, Kim Briscoe finds out how we are caring for the growing number of people with the condition.
It can be a bewildering and frustrating condition, in which carers are put under an enormous strain and family members see the person they once knew disappear bit by bit.
With more and more people expected to be diagnosed with dementia, it poses a huge challenge to our health and social care system.
Social media should be an essential part of new social workers’ toolkits
September 6, 2014
Carers, Depression, disability, internet, Social care
Digital media enables professionals to communicate more effectively with service users and each other
Claudia Megele, senior lecturer, Middlesex University, and head of practice learning, Enfield council
Now is the time to create a combined health and social care system
September 4, 2014
Carers, health, Social care, welfare
4th September 2014
Merging two leaky buckets does not provide a watertight solution.
NHS England’s chief executive, Simon Stevens, recently told the Health Select Committee that merging two leaky buckets does not provide a watertight solution. It is for this reason that the growing problems in the NHS and social care cannot be solved by the Better Care Fund or any of the other short-term solutions on offer. Nothing less than a fundamental reform of the funding of health and social care services and citizens’ entitlements to publicly funded support is required to address these problems.
