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Health inequalities in MSK services are stark. People in deprived areas develop MSK conditions earlier and face worse outcomes. This #BoneAndJointWeek, we must push for truly equitable access to services and better support for those most affected. #JoinedUpForJoints

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Health inequalities in MSK services are stark. People in deprived areas develop MSK conditions earlier and face worse outcomes. This Bone and Joint Week, we must push for truly equitable access to services and better support for those most affected. Read the ARMA Act Now report to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eeW6vw2R

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Understanding and addressing complex mental health issues and dual diagnosis is crucial, especially for the Black community, which faces unique barriers to care. 🧠 In our latest collaboration with Rethink Mental Illness, BMMUK's Darlington Zvionere discusses the shortcomings of current mental health services and the urgent need for multidisciplinary care. Employers, professionals, and BMMUK's supporters, your role in advocating for better mental health services for the Black community and supporting our initiatives can make a significant difference. 🖤 Watch the full video to learn more about the challenges and how we can work together to create a more inclusive and effective mental health care system. 📺 Watch the video and consider supporting our mission: https://lnkd.in/dNve6rhp #MentalHealthAwareness #CorporateResponsibility #InclusiveHealthcare #BlackMindsMatterUK #DualDiagnosis #SupportMentalHealth #rethinkmentalillness

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"Society needs to restart the conversation about how to die well: with dignity, compassion, and preferences respected". We were pleased to see End of Life Care feature in the recently published independent Investigation of the NHS in England – the Darzi Review https://lnkd.in/eDrp9Q9v Its time to start those difficult advance care planning conversations to help ensure patients spend their final days in a place where they are safe and comfortable and feel at home. Start yours with us: https://lnkd.in/dyxyEvuc #AdvanceCarePlanning

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Integrated care systems embrace devolution and collaboration to deliver government reforms, prioritising prevention-focused neighbourhood care and sustainable health outcomes through an updated NHS operating framework, writes Kathy McLean. https://lnkd.in/diqq5ZdN

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In today's The Sunday Post, Rachel Cackett from CCPS - COALITION OF CARE AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS IN SCOTLAND talks about the existential threat the UK Government's eNIC policy will have on non-profit social care providers: https://lnkd.in/eJqSm4Xp. The changes announced by the Chancellor, to employer National Insurance contributions, have significant implications for Thistle. They will compound our current financial challenges creating an additional, unfunded, financial gap of £292,000 per year. “As a not for profit, every penny we spend is invested in delivering quality support that gives people we work alongside choice and control over their lives. Yet we find ourselves in the unenviable position of considering how we will manage this increase in costs, where it will come from and how the decisions we take might impact on the 97 people we support across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife, their families and the 350 social care workers that we employ. “The Chancellor must reconsider this approach. This is a Budget that will not save public services; it will crush them. We stand with our colleagues, people we support and the wider sector and call the Chancellor to clarify, now, how they intend to provide UK relief, in full, for a UK policy change on Employers’ National Insurance for not-for-profit providers of crucial public services.” Read our full statement, here: https://lnkd.in/ekHzuACW.

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The Need for Wider Consultation in Social Care! Effective change in social care requires input from all stakeholders. Learn why a broader consultation is crucial when considering care experience as a protected characteristic. 🌟 Watch Here: https://lnkd.in/e7EGaZyn #Consultation #Stakeholders #ProtectedCharacteristics

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🚑 Transforming Crisis Intervention CARE is reshaping the way we handle mental health crises. By working closely with ICB’s, police forces, AMHP teams and mental health professionals, we’re delivering rapid, compassionate, and effective least restrictive interventions that save lives. With successful teams already running in Sussex, we're proving that the future of crisis response is here — and it’s happening now. 🔗 Learn more about how we're making a difference: www.nepts.co.uk #mentalhealth | #crisisintervention | #policecollaboration | #mentalhealthcare | #CAREdivision | #publicsafety | #rightcarerightperson | #emergencysupport | #healthcareinnovation | #sussexteam | #communityfirst | #mentalhealthmatters

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The NHS, social care & health in Scotland are in need of review & reform just as much as in England. Our #NHS2048 continues to hear from different voices outlining how reform is possible & necessary. Prevention & community-based care are recurring themes⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ewae8NtM

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New report from NCCH UK: Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities. The report uses case studies to explore lessons for Organisational culture; Improvement; Collaboration; Organisational enablers; Engagement and outreach and Flexibility, ad-hoc and agile working https://buff.ly/4b81foI

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“At a minimum, ICBs should ensure that less than 10 per cent of community mental health waits are over 104 weeks”, say NHS England. Community mental health trusts will find this informal ‘ask’ difficult. NHS Digital figures (reported by the Health Service Journal) suggest that the entire national picture is worse than this, and deteriorating. Envious glances are no doubt being cast at the acute sector, where only 0.003% of acute patient pathways are waiting that long. With no formal target, and no regularly published figures, this is clearly a waiting list that has not received much scrutiny. So the data systems are likely to be fragmented, with relatively poor data quality. And mental health pathways are complex, all of which makes this new requirement all the more difficult to deliver. It’s just the kind of challenge that Insource Ltd’s advanced data systems are built for. We have unparalleled experience at unifying disparate, siloed data, improving data quality and consistency, and then making sense of it in legible patient pathways. That is how incorrect pathways are exposed, ready for correction. Patients who were lost in the system are found. Patients who are due their next action are surfaced for booking in. When the data is so well prepared, quality and safety are a lot easier to achieve. If your community mental health service is challenged by long waiting times, then get in touch. One of our experts will be happy to discuss how to get you back on track. https://lnkd.in/ejP99zNN Nadine Carey-Whitehead Graham Bennett Rob Davenport Tim Eltze Karen Hyde Greg Stevens Paige Elizabeth Hyde Adrian Owen Rachel Lane Donna Smith https://lnkd.in/ei5fpT69

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🚨 Highlighting Gaps in Care for Neurodivergent People & SEND Families 🚨 In the UK, neurodivergent individuals and families of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are facing overwhelming barriers in accessing adequate care and support through the NHS. Despite increasing demand, our current system struggles to address these needs. Challenges as we see them: 🔷 Private Assessments Not Recognised: Individuals and families are often left frustrated as private diagnoses for neurodivergent presentations are not accepted by NHS services, blocking access to essential support. 🔷 Medication and Treatment Delays: Many face roadblocks in accessing critical medications, with NHS clinicians questioning private diagnoses, further delaying needed support. Unfortunately many GPs are not honouring shared care agreements, meaning that ADHDers are stuck with either no access to medication or having to continue to pay privately, which is costly and exclusionary. 🔷 Limited SEND Resources: Families and caregivers lack access to sufficient resources, interventions and respite care, stretching them beyond capacity. 🔷 Inadequate Adaptations in Clinical Settings: Services often aren’t appropriately designed to support neurodivergent needs, adding unnecessary stress for both patients and families. It’s time for policymakers to recognise and address these challenges. Join us in sharing a voice and advocating for change by responding to the government’s NHS survey: https://lnkd.in/dmqrAHsZ. Who is with us to improve care, provision and support for neurodivergent people and their families. Together, we can push for an NHS that truly meets the needs of all individuals. #Neurodiversity #SENDsupport #NHSreform #InclusiveHealthcare #Advocacy

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This is the latest monthly NHS and social care briefing published by MIAA & TIAN: Key publications include- ✅NHS Providers - System working in the NHS: how trusts work in partnership to improve care and outcomes for people. This resource looks at the role of system working in the NHS and how trusts can work in partnerships to improve outcomes. ✅NHS Providers - Keeping your integrated care system safer from cyber attacks. This briefing shares five top tips and poses a series of questions to help ICS leaders ensure that they are prepared and able to respond to cyber threats ✅The King’s Fund - Realising the Potential of Integrated Care Systems. This report assesses ICSs' efforts to develop system-wide approaches to recruitment, training and retention of staff, ✅National Audit Office - NHS financial management and sustainability. This report sets out: the NHS’s current financial position and operating context; whether NHS England’s financial management processes allow accurate and timely decision-making and support for NHS bodies that are struggling ✅NHS Employers - New legal duty to prevent sexual harassment. From October there will be a new duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment. NHS Employers provides further detail and signposts to further resources. ✅Department of Health and Social Care - UK Covid-19 Inquiry; Module 1: the resilience and preparedness of the United Kingdom. This report contains the results of the first investigation into the nation’s resilience and preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic.

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A brighter social care future. Coproducing the evidence base for five key changes This is a brilliant resource for anyone wanting to use evidence to drive and support change in social care. Research in Practice did a fantastic thing. They started from what an inquiry led by 12 older and disabled people & engaging many others, said were five really important elements that should drive change. They then worked for 18 months with a (paid) group of people who draw on social care to go deep into those five key changes and used their own expertise in research and evidence to develop a brilliant practical resource. Great for professionals, councils, support providers, anyone wanting to focus on the right things supported by evidence It’s so not a traditional report - have a look - you can explore topics in different ways, dip in for overviews, pieces of video etc or go deep into information ideas and evidence Melanie Williams Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) Alex Fox OBE Stephen Burke Helen Sanderson MBE sarah maguire Research in Practice

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It's Mental Health Awareness Week! Our 2024 funding is now open for applications. We are funding community projects in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly supporting women’s mental health. For this round of funding projects with a focus on perinatal mental health will be given preferential consideration. You do not have to be a registered charity to apply. Grants will range from £500 to a maximum of £1,000 and you must be a not-for-profit organisation or group working with women in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. Cornwall Women’s Fund can only do more, if you give more - it’s as bold as that. We need your regular donations, whether that’s £5 a week or £10 a month, or a sum you can afford annually, or maybe the proceeds of a fundraising event you’ve held with CWF as a beneficiary. Please sign up via Cornwall Community Foundation who administer our fund and grant applications: https://lnkd.in/ebQbK55V #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2024

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