Efficient and intelligent councils
To help councils continuously improve, we want to bring together learning from across local government to better describe the characteristics of efficient councils and create a package of support in one place. If your council would be interested in helping to co-produce this please get in contact.
Allied Healthcare: latest updates and advice
On 30 November Nestor Primecare Services Limited, trading as Allied Healthcare, sold Allied in an asset sale to Healthcare Resourcing Group (HCRG) trading as CRG, including the Primecare and Firstcall businesses. The LGA is working closely with ADASS to support councils with their contingency plans. We will continue to provide further updates as the situation develops You can also contact chip@local.gov.uk if you have any immediate concerns.
Consumer law advice sets out obligations for care homes
The Competition and Markets Authority is providing advice so care homes understand their responsibilities under consumer law. It will be conducting a review in 12 months’ time to assess how well care homes are complying and may take further action before then if it finds care homes are treating residents and their families unfairly and breaking the law. Social care commissioners should be aware that the advice is also relevant to local authority responsibilities for funded placements.
Effectiveness of interventions to address loneliness at all stages of life
This briefing aims to answer the question: What is the effectiveness of interventions to alleviate loneliness in people of all ages across the life-course?
New resource to help homeless people access vital care at end of life
The Homeless Palliative Care toolkit provides information and resources for frontline staff supporting people who are homeless and have significant health needs.
A society of readers
Demos carried out research this summer to assess the potential impact of reading on several great challenges of our time: loneliness, mental health problems, dementia and social (im)mobility.
How do we include health inequality impacts in economic analysis of policy options?
This briefing introduces a visual tool for clarifying the relationship between cost effectiveness (total health impact) and equity impact (health inequality reduction).
Relationship Sex Education, Relationship Education and Health Education
The LGA has responded to the Department for Education consultation on draft guidance and statutory regulations for Relationship Sex Education, Relationship Education and Health Education.
Community-centred practice: applying All Our Health
Public Health England (PHE) has published guidance for frontline staff to adopt community-centred ways of working that help improves the health and wellbeing of the most marginalised communities.
PHE inquiry into the fall in numbers of people in alcohol treatment: findings
Alcohol treatment commissioners and providers can use this report to understand what was behind the fall in the numbers of people in treatment for alcohol dependence in England since 2013 to 2014.
Prevention is better than cure
Statutory guidance to improve young people's wellbeing
This guidance sets out the statutory duty placed on local authorities to provide appropriate local youth services to improve young people’s wellbeing.
Homelessness: duty to refer - for NHS staff
This guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care provides an overview of the duty to refer for NHS staff, including how to make a referral to a local authority.
Knowledge Hub, LG Inform and LG Inform Plus
Through the Knowledge Hub (KHub), this
bulletin, and the blog of data specialist Philippa
Lynch we will provide updates and links to new information
available. Using LG Inform and LG Inform Plus the LGA will provide
reports and easy access to information across a range of health and wellbeing
themes. Reports covering health and wellbeing measures for your area
are available through our interactive map. If there are further
resources you would like to see signposted on our website, please email philippa.lynch@local.gov.uk.
Shifting the centre of gravity: making place-based, person-centred health and care a reality
This joint report shows what can be achieved by system leaders and staff from local government, the NHS, the voluntary and social enterprise sector, and carer groups working together to improve health and deliver person-centred care.
Self care: councils helping people look after themselves
Whatever the situation, there is one thing all people who self care have in common: they feel empowered and confident to take responsibility for their own health. Not only is this good for the individual, it is also important for the health and care system which is under more strain than ever.
A Better Start: supporting child development in the early years
This guide sets out the reasons that the early years are so essential to future outcomes and wellbeing.
Primary care home and social care: working together
The National Association of Primary Care and ADASS have launched a joint publication on how adult social care and primary care can work more closely together through the primary care home model, an established primary care network.
Health on the High Street: Running on Empty 2018
The Royal Society of Public Health report examines the impact of high street outlets on the public's health and wellbeing.
The evidence behind early intervention
In its report, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee calls on the Government to draw up a new national strategy for early intervention approaches to address childhood adversity and trauma.
LGBT in Britain: health report
This Stonewall report uncovers high rates of poor mental health experienced by LGBT people in Britain today, as well as the challenges many LGBT people face when accessing wider healthcare services.
Place-based leadership for health and wellbeing in the West Midlands
14 December 2018 | Birmingham
Political and clinical leaders in health and care annual summit
27 February 2019 | Church House, London
LGA/ADPH annual public health conference and exhibition 2019
21 March 2019 | London
LGA Annual Conference and Exhibition 2019
2-4 July 2019 | Bournemouth
National Children and Adult Services Conference and Exhibition 2019
20 - 22 November 2019 | Bournemouth
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