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delivered should be subject to an appropriate and proportionate evaluation Evaluations help identify what works and why, provide learning to improve effectiveness (of services), highlight good practice and ... new ideas Evaluations help demonstrate potential cost savings, cost effectiveness and value for money of services being delivered The risk of not evaluating, or of poor evaluation, is that it will
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Executive summary…..page 3 Chapter One – Why will the NHS need to change?.....page 7 Chapter Two – What will the future look like? A new relationship with patients and communities…..page 10 - Getting serious ... page 13 - Engaging communities…..page 14 - The NHS as a social movement…..page 15 Chapter Three – What will the future look like? New models of care…..page 17 - Emerging models…..page 17 - One size fits
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about how they can age healthily and prevent falling over in their own future. This session which runs up to 1-hour begins with a classroom-based discussion then an interactive falls ‘incident scene’ exploration ... the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of its community through positive action. Find out more: www. phw.nhs.wales/services-and-teams/ welsh-network-of-healthy-schoolschemes/ It can also be
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Reviews of services provided 13 3.8 What if NHS care is required at some point during the social care process? 14 4 Meeting care needs – what sort of services might the ... authority’s duty to carry out an assessment 15 5.1 Duty to carry out an assessment for someone who requests one 15 5.2 Does the local authority have any duty to carry out
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to the social care system in Wales 5 3 How the local authority can help you if you have care and/or support needs 6 3.1 Introduction 6 3.2 Initial contact with the local authority ... referral 7 3.3 Having an assessment of your needs 9 3.4 Deciding eligibility for service provision 10 3.5 If you have eligible needs 10 3.6 The care and support plan 11 4 How the local authority can help a carer
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commentators argue that this will put increasing pressure on housing benefit expenditure and social care, if retirement incomes do not keep up with rent levels. This briefing paper looks at the implications ... support and care for them, to ask how well private renting really works for older people and what needs to change if the sector is to achieve a better fit with older people’s needs and aspirations. The private
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people in later life. Age UK provides information and advice to around 6 million people each year, runs public and parliamentary campaigns, provides training, and funds research exclusively focused on later ... practice there remains uncertainty about how to apply the two-stage functional test of capacity set out in sections 2 and 3 of the MCA. This confusion is perhaps to some extent inherent in the legislation
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Research Manager at Age UK with responsibility for Evaluation & Impact. He designs, manages and carries out research evaluation in support of the Charity’s objectives. He supports colleagues in the Charity and ... Information) ........................................................... 58 Annex G –Activities Carried Out By Energy Advisers ...............................................................................
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current public sector ombudsman sector is best for citizens, best for Parliament and delivers value for money. The Gordon Review itself followed a Law Commission review in 2011, which highlighted the wide inconsistencies ... Ombudsman should have jurisdiction over public services even if supplied by a third party organisation. We think it is necessary to set out more explicitly the standards that a reformed system should
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therefore do not face the same conditionality requirements as younger people in order to receive benefits. If there are delays or problems in receiving benefits they will normally at least have some income from ... therefore relatively uncommon for people to seek help from Age UK on the grounds that they have no money at all. 3. Our information and advice workers do however come across cases where errors or poor
