The real cost of a fair adult social care system
Anita Charlesworth and Toby Watt look at the funding and workforce challenges facing the adult social care system.
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Improving the Ambulant Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy pathway
Run by the Neuromuscular team at Great Ormond Street Hospital, this project aimed at improving the experience of boys with Muscular Dystrophy who are still ambulant (able to walk). The work focused on...
£4.4bn funding gap projected for social care in England as spending per person falls further behind other UK countries
New analysis from the Health Foundation shows that there will be a social care funding gap of £4.4bn in England in 2023/24 to meet rising demand and address critical staffing shortages in the sector.
Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson is a Sciana member and National Lead for Tuberculosis (TB) Strategy at Public Health England.
Improving the COPD care experience
Run by the Hywel Dda Local Health Board, this project aimed at improving care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions. The team loo...
Mr Steve Clarke
Steve Clarke is a Sciana member and Consultant Mental Health Nurse at the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust, where he leads work to improve the response to people in crisis and distress across Wales.
Caring for patients who are approaching the end of life
Run by Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, this project aimed at making the end of life care provided on general wards more person-centred, involving patients and their families and carers in decisions about ...
Richard Kirby
Richard Kirby is a Sciana member and Chief Executive of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
A welcome shift in conversation
With a string of reports in the press on stalling life expectancy, growing inter-generational unfairness and the depth of the cuts from the austerity agenda, it seems that the way we think about healt...
