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News & Views

January 2012

NHS/Social Care integration

Agincare's Live In Care service is purchased by the NHS (by Primary Care Trusts - PCTs) and by Councils as well as by private individuals. You might think that there is co-ordination between the NHS and Councils and, indeed, all do try to achieve this but amazingly people's care between hospital and returning home with on-going care needs is not really integrated there is an interesting article about this in the Community care magazine which might give you some interesting insights:

December 2011

Christmas at home

We are delighted to say that all our clients who need care and support to stay at home now have their care workers confirmed for the festivities.

Of course some people are cared for by their own families over Christmas but many, who live further afield, have more substantial care needs or simply consider their care worker like an extended family member, retain our service over Christmas.

December 2011

Who needs Live In Care and Support?

Many people who use our Live in Care and support service do so because they need more care as they become older; what is less well known is that many younger people with disabilities use the service too.

December 2011

CQC inspections of home care

It's sometimes funny what makes the news. Reading the headlines earlier in the week you'd think that home care wasn't subject to inspection; as you can see from our CQC report on this site our services are inspected.

Still some of you might be interested in this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15831639

November 2011

Human Rights Act and care in the home

Today, another report has highlighted poor standards of care received by many people in their own home. Whilst this is in part a sad indictment of some individuals or organisations which simply do not have the dignity, respect and care of their clients truly at their heart; in the vast majority of cases I expect it is due to the myriad of pressures faced by providers of home care. Read on for some obvservations from Agincare Live In Care’s MD...

November 2011

Does having dementia mean you don't have a choice?

Direct Payments is a way for local authorities to put choice and control into the hands of people who are eligible for funded care by paying funds directly to them. It seems this choice is not always available to people with dementia; see this article from Community Care...

Personal budgets system not set up for people with dementia

Jeremy Dunning
Thursday 17 November 2011 00:03

October 2011

Agincare at the UKHCA Conference

Attendees at the UK Home Care Association conference at the Birmingham NEC on Wednesday 26th October were keen to hear direct from the Dept. of Health about progress towards some clarity regarding the funding of care and to share views on all sorts of sector issues and concerns. Here are the personal notes/thoughts of Agincare Live-in Care’s MD...

September 2011

Starting Uni and running your own business?

See Nathan Fernandes starting Uni with a bang as he makes the front page of the Bristol Evening Post. Nathan uses our services and you can hear from his support worker, Dave, in this article. Our thanks to Nathan too as he cast his expert eye over some of our marketing materials. http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Meet-Nathan-severely-disabled-UWE-student...