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Ending the culture of suspicion...

Terry Dafter looks at the obstacles that differing information systems pose to overall health and social care integration… And suggests ways of removing them.

Social Work Valued

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Date: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Embargo: 00.01hrs Wednesday 29th May 2013

Bernard Walker outlines the business case to be made for social work, and the contribution the profession can make to individuals, communities and local governments.

ADASS welcome for TLAP survey

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Date: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
Embargo: Immediate

ADASS president Sandie Keene has praised adult social services departments for the `important strides’ they have taken towards widening and improving the spread of personal budgets to older and disabled people.

ADASS welcome for dementia awareness week

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Embargo: 00.01hrs Monday 20th May 2013

ADASS President Sandie Keene has sent her best wishes to the Alzheimer’s Society and other voluntary groups who are preparing for next week’s Dementia Awareness Week – this year devoted to encouraging people to talk about dementia, and to talk to people with dementia.

Social care funding: 'a bleak outlook is getting bleaker

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Date: Monday 6th May 2013
Embargo: 00.01hrs Wednesday 8th May 2013

A substantial squeeze on services for older people, people with disabilities and on fees to providers, has been recorded by the latest annual survey of social care budgets carried out by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.

Francis - Government response to be considered in relation to all health and social care services

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Date: Monday 25th March 2013
Embargo: Immediate

As the Government prepares to publish its response to the Francis Report into events at mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, directors of adult social services have promised to play their part in addressing the issues highlighted in the report – “a report which must be considered not only beyond mid Staffs in the wider NHS but in relation to all health and social care services delivered in all settings right across the country,” according to ADASS President Sarah Pickup.

Dementia report: misdiagnosis and poor training at root of problem

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Date: Tuesday 12th March 2013
Embargo: Immediate

The issue of the way people with dementia are treated when they have other illnesses and conditions is one which requires a 'comprehensive, coordinated response across the entire health and care system’, according to directors of adult social services.

Castlebeck in Administration: patients and residents take priority

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Date: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Embargo: ImmediateThe following notice was issued jointly by the Department of Health, ADASS, and the NHS Commissioning Board to ADASS members earlier today:

The owners of Castlebeck have today announced that the company is going into administration. This note is to provide you with some information on the process that we expect will follow. Administrators will begin a planned process, seeking buyers for the 16 Castlebeck facilities and whether or not buyers are found for all the facilities, the ongoing care of patients and residents will be the priority and Castlebeck and the administrators are committed to working with local commissioners to ensure safe transfer ownership of facilities and continuity of care for individuals.

Psychiatrists and adult care directors pledge more joint care for people with mental health problems

Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS)
Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych)
Date: Thursday 28th February 2013
Embargo: 00.01 hrs Friday 1st March 2013

Leaders of two major professions in England have come together to pledge to work in a closer, more integrated way for the benefit of people with mental health problems.

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