Des Kelly

England has tried and failed to move care out of hospital and into community settings before. What's needed to make it work this time?

We've drawn on the lessons from Ireland and Denmark's experience.

There's much to be learnt, including on funding.

Read the report 👉 buff.ly/hzWZO9W

Commodities: Sculpture and Ceramics by Renee So | Compton Verney With 120 acres of art, nature, and creativity Compton Verney is an extraordinary place to visit; inspiration and imagination, outside and in.

Had a preview of this wonderful exhibition this morning and highly recommend it: www.comptonverney.org.uk/whats-on/ren...

Nominate Nominate now. Click here to enter somebody for the Markel 3rd Sector care Awards. View the categories and find out who can enter.

Here is your chance, nominations are open: www.caremanagementmatters.co.uk/3rd-sector-c...

Great to meet with fellow trustees for a board meeting of My Home Life Charity @myhomelifeuk.bsky.social
at @citystgeorges.bsky.social

Professional Care Workers’ Week: Celebrating the Skills and Stories of Our Care Workforce - My Home Life England Working in social care is not “just a job” – it’s a profession that requires a whole range of skills, including: compassion, dignity, leadership, resilience, dedication, patience, advocacy, initiative...

💜 It’s been a week-long celebration of the skill, empathy and dedication care workers bring every day. Head over to our blog to read stories celebrating the impact of care workers:
🔗 myhomelife.org.uk/professional-care-workers-week-celebrating-the-skills-and-stories-of-our-care-workforce

Unrestrained Celebration by Mark Haddon I first found myself on the Goldmark website some years ago in search of prints from David Hockney’s Grimm’s Fairy Tale series. I had little or no interest in ceramics at the time. My favourite mug wa...

www.goldmarkart.com/blogs/discov...
I reckon this might be the best description of an artist’s work I’ve ever read! And the exhibition ius a treat as well!

‘The Future Is Today’ celebrates prints and the University of Warwick from 1965 to now. Just started at the Mead Gallery. Wonderful free exhibition and well worth a visit!

Flu: who is at risk and what precautions are recommended? As critical incidents are declared in at least a dozen hospitals, we look at testing and protection advice Over the past week, at least a dozen hospitals have declared critical incidents as the rise in flu admissions and respiratory illnesses has led to…

Flu: who is at risk and what precautions are recommended?

The Guardian view on social care: reformers must reclaim the initiative | Editorial Labour pledged ‘deep reform’ of this flawed and complex system. A royal commission could shape a consensus The sooner the government brings forward social care proposals the better. The lack of further detail about a manifesto commitment to “deep reform”…

The Guardian view on social care: reformers must reclaim the initiative | Editorial

Our Future Homes: Housing that promotes wellbeing and community for an ageing population

www.gov.uk/government/p...
Delighted to see this important report has been published today. Hopefully it will start the crucial debate on housing options for people as they age.

Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust

Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns

Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust
#socialcare #carehomes
#hospices
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Here's today's @thenorthernagenda.bsky.social cartoon...

Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (19th century): one who pays great attention to trivial matters as a way of avoiding the important ones.

Surely the best of current TV!

So true!

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0

Home Care Research Forum November 2024 Dr Kalpa Kharicha, King’s College London; Dr Bryony Beresford, University of York

Home Care Research Forum November 2024
Wed 20 November 2024 14:00 to 16:00
Online
Talks on: Digital care management systems; & International recruitment of care workers: implications for homecare.
All welcome
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/home-...

Pathways between practice and research in Adult Social Care YouTube video by Kent Research Partnership

Do you work in #socialcare?
Are you interested in research?
Did you know that research is for everyone and you don't have to leave the job you love?

You can wear multiple hats!

Pathways between practice and research in Adult Social Care youtu.be/VVi1Fp7dmww?si… via @YouTube

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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