CM Mental Health

Community Care Market News (News) July 2004 More than two thirds of adult placement carers in England are not registered with regulators,...

After carrying out 40 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes looking after people with learning disabilities in a post-Winterbourne blitz’, the government regulator has concluded that service users are often not at the centre of their own care.

Mental health charity Mind warned last month that the £75,000 care fee cap (see this issue Lead) announced last month may not help younger people with long term care needs.

An inquiry into the care of disabled children and young people by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has learned that some service users and their families found accessing services challenging.

The Department of Health (DH) this month begun a project to establish national baselines for measuring the levels and effectiveness of services as drawn up in the National Dementia Strategy launched back in summer 2008 (CCMN July 2008).

Dementia care has been marked out as a high level priority in the NHS Operating Framework, published at the end of November.

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has started consulting on social care quality standards on dementia care and the health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people.

Community Care Market News (News) November 2003 The Department of Health (DoH) has launched a national consultation on choice, responsiveness and equity...

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced the government will provide £50m worth of funding to help hospitals and care homes create dedicated care environments for dementia sufferers.

Community Care Market News (News) February 1999 The Department of Health has published community care statistics for 1998, covering residential personal social...