Care Equation - Adult Social and Health Care

Adult Social
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ADULT SOCIAL & HEALTH CARE

Our work on adult social care spans needs assessment, commissioning strategies, user consultation, fair access and service development. A main focus is services for older people, but our work also addresses disability, mental health and drug and alcohol services for adults aged 18-64.

Projects

Review of evidence and production of draft narrative for State of Care Report 2009/10, for Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2010-11)

Work with Department of Health Care Services Efficiency Delivery project (CSED) to support local councils in developing strategies and business cases for main-streaming and developing the use of assistive technologies in adult social care (2010-11)

Briefing summaries on (a) Personalisation: Implications for Social Workers; and (b) Self-directed Support and Personal Budgets: Enabling Risk, Ensuring Safety, for the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) (2010)

Evaluation of Experts by Experience programme, for Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2010)

Review of Fairer Charging Policy in the light of Personal Budgets, for Lincolnshire County Council (2009-10)

Review of long term residential care and associated day care services for older people (jointly with Cordis Bright Consulting and Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion) for Leeds City Council (2009)

Review of the roles and responsibilities of regulator and commissioner in ensuring and promoting quality in adult social care services, for Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) (2009) More information

Planning4care strategic needs assessment (Mental Health and Learning Disability); work with 6 pilot authorities (Bolton, Derbyshire, Essex, North East Lincolnshire, North Tyneside, Rochdale) (2009)

Planning4care strategic needs assessment (Older People); product development targeted at Local Authorities and PCTs (2007-09 and ongoing)

Provision of a specification for a service for people with Asperger's syndrome in North East Essex, for North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2009) More information

Review of social care workforce delivery agencies (jointly with Portico Consulting), for Department of Health (2008) More information

Joint workshop undertaken with Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA), for groups from five invited Local Authorities and partners, to explore "Turning the Curve" of the delivery of social care outcomes to older people (2008)

Estimate of projected requirements for Short Term Care, for Brighton and Hove City PCT (2008)

Review of prevalence and economic impact of mental health conditions in the South East Region, for South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) (2008)

Scoping study on improving information for commissioning Care Services for Older People, for Brighton and Hove City Council and Brighton and Hove PCT (2006)

Research into Mental Health Information requirements, for NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, jointly with Portico Consulting (2006)

Needs assessment for adult drugs services in rural areas, for East Sussex Drug and Alcohol Action Team (2005) More information

Research into experiences of Black and Ethnic Minority communities in using local health services, for Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust (2005) More information

Study into reasons for non-attendance and drop-out in drugs services for Adur, Arun and Worthing Primary Care Trust (2005)

Crack cocaine needs analysis in Eastbourne and Hastings, for East Sussex Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT), jointly with The Foundry (2005) More information

Needs-led planning for adult social care (older people and physical disabilities), for Gloucestershire Social Services Department (2005) More information

Supporting People – Consultation Framework and Action Plan, for LB Barking & Dagenham (2004)

Analysis support for Spring 2004 Delivery and Improvement Statements (DIS), for Department of Health, SSI (2004)

Support for production of national (integrated) user group reports (Older People, Mental Health, Physical Disabilities), for Department of Health SSI (2003-04)

Research review on user involvement in promoting change and enhancing the quality of social care services for older people, for Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) (2003) More information

Analysis of drug and alcohol services provision, for Worthing Borough Council (2003)

Research into prevalence and prevention of drugs use in rural areas, for Chichester and Horsham Community Safety Partnership (2002/03), jointly with Health and Social Policy Research Centre (HSPRC), University of Brighton (2003) More information

Conduct of focus group on behalf of Michael Norman and Partners, for Department of Health Evaluation of Drug and Alcohol Specific Grant (2003)

Methodological development of needs-based planning for community care of adults with mental health problems, on behalf of Department of Health, SSI (2000) More information

Research and advice on social care information requirements on behalf of ICL (1999)

Review of social services operational procedures, for LB Enfield (1999)

Research project on admissions to residential and nursing homes, and use of health care support, for Barking & Havering Health Authority and LBs Barking & Dagenham and Havering Social Services Departments (1999)

Development of social services eligibility criteria (adults), for LB Barking & Dagenham (1999)

Evaluation of outcomes of revised eligibility criteria for community care, for Surrey County Council (1999)

Resource allocation formula for managing community care placements, for Darlington Borough Council (1999)

Development of a database of work relating to population needs assessment for social care in Northern Ireland, for DHSS (Northern Ireland) (1999)

Interagency procedure and guidance for vulnerable older people in the community, for LB Southwark (1999)

Development of eligibility criteria and care management guidance on service allocation, for LB Southwark (1999)

Commissioning intentions for older people and for people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities and mental health needs, for LB Barking & Dagenham (1999)

Review of the operation of Continuing Health Care eligibility criteria, for East London and the City Health Authority (ELCHA) and its four constituent Local Authority social services departments (1997)

Co-organisation of a conference on outcome measurement in treatment for the misuse of drugs and alcohol (1996)