Archives for October 6th, 2010

SOCIAL SERVICES CHIEFS WELCOME FUNDING FOR DISCHARGED PATIENTS

Headlines, PublicNet: 6 October, 2010

The heads of Adult social services welcomed news of extra funding for work to ensure elderly people get care in the weeks following their discharge from hospital. The 70 million pounds of extra money was announced by the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, who said it would prevent patients being re-admitted to hospital soon after treatment.

The president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Richard Jones, welcomed the announcement as an encouraging first step towards ensuring sensible, effective preventative services being put in place quickly and carefully, sparing the NHS the expense of unnecessary and disruptive readmissions.

Mr. Jones added: “It is good news and we see it as confirming our view that only by tighter integration of health and social care services in the community will real savings, and real improvements in services, be made.” He said local authorities had already invested significantly in re-ablement services. The new money would be used to build on existing services helping people to return home.

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COUNCILS AND NHS URGED TO MOVE TO NEW APPROACHES TO CARE

Headlines, PublicNet: 6 October, 2010

Local authorities and the NHS are being urged to drop traditional approaches to social care for older and disabled people and to move towards ideas such as social enterprises and family-based care. The call comes in a report from the National Association of Adult Placement Services, which argues that the introduction of personal budgets and direct payments has not created greater choice and control for people because they still have only a narrow list of care providers to choose from.

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STILL SURPRISED: A MEMOIR OF A LIFE IN LEADERSHIP

Book News, PublicNet: 6 October, 2010

By Warren Bennis with Patricia Ward Biederman

This memoir is filled with insights about the successes and failures from a long life and career. The author traversed eight decades of first-hand experience with tumultuous episodes of recent history. This extends from a Jewish child in a gentile town in the 30’s, a young army recruit in the Battle of the Bulge, to a college student in one of the first progressive precursors to the civil rights movement, to a patient undergoing daily psychoanalysis for five years.

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