Health And Social Care Home Care Research Paper

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UKHCA Summary Paper An overview of the UK domiciliary care sector February 2013 Version 33 Prepared by Joyce Francis, Information Officer United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd 2nd Floor, Group House 52 Sutton Court Road Sutton SM1 4SL Telephone: 020 8661 8188 E-mail: policy@ukhca.co.uk Website: www.ukhca.co.uk Registered in England No. 3083104. Contents Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Introduction ............................................................................... 3 Homecare or care homes? ........................................................... 3 Disclaimer ................................................................................. 3 England.....................................................................................…show more content…
Telephone: 03000 616161 Further Reading UKHCA, Who Cares Now? An Updated Profile of the Independent Sector Home Care Workforce in England (2004). Available from UKHCA, Group House, 52 Sutton Court Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 4SL. Telephone 020 8288 5291 or download from www.ukhca.co.uk/pdfs/whocaresnow.pdf. Laing & Buisson, Domiciliary Care UK Market Report 2011 (11th edition, 2011). Available from Laing & Buisson, 29 Angel Gate, City Road, London, EC1V 2PT. Telephone 020 7833 9123, www.laingbuisson.co.uk. Commission for Social Care Inspection, Time to Care? An overview of home care services for older people in England (2006). Commission for Social Care Inspection. (2008). The State of Social Care in England 2006-7 Care Quality Commission Market Reports. Contact the Care Quality Commission (see above) for information on these documents which are now held by the new regulator. Community Care Statistics available from the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, Telephone 0845 300 6016, or download from www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/social-care/ Skills for Care National Minimum Dataset and State of Social Care Workforce. Available from Skills for Care Tel 0113 2451716 or download from www.skillsforcare.org.uk/view.asp?id=977 Care and Support White paper…show more content…
In a 2008 survey of contracting statutory, voluntary and independent sector providers, of those who responded 94% were either statutory services or provided care under contract to the HSC Trusts.69 Data supplied by DHSSPS to UKHCA in 2008 indicated that the costs to the Trusts of using the independent sector is on average £9.84 an hour, while in-house services cost £11.81.70 Public spending cuts are placing greater pressure on statutory social care commissioners who are restricting the amount of care that they buy as well as the price they pay. UKHCA’s 2012 commissioning survey showed that Over a third (34%) of the UK’s homecare providers were concerned about risks to the dignity or safety of the care that local councils require them to undertake for older and disabled people.71 Average price for hour of homecare A market report by Laing and Buisson shows that the average price for independent sector homecare by social services in Northern Ireland was £11.07. This figure should be used with extreme caution due to the geographical

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