by Ralph Cook | Mar 31, 2021 | Adult social care, Health
Directors of Adult Social Care must seize the opportunity to get ahead of the demand curve You can always rely on Freddie Mercury to inject some energy into proceedings, so we are shamelessly using his 1979 hit ‘Don’t stop me now’ as a call to arms today. If Freddie...
by Michael Kitts | Mar 9, 2021 | Adult social care, Health
At IMPOWER we are always thinking with our clients about how to act innovatively to improve outcomes. The pandemic has forced everyone in public services to innovate at pace – to take positive risks with new solutions in order to secure the outcomes that matter....
by James Swaffield | Feb 2, 2021 | Adult social care, Health, Local government transformation
Reflections from our recent roundtable with ADASS and colleagues from Royal Colleges In 1995, Francis Fukuyama wrote an influential book called Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity. His central argument was that a nation’s wellbeing was...
by Michael Kitts | Jan 25, 2021 | Adult social care, Health
In November 2020, NHSE published a document entitled ‘Next Steps to Building Strong and Effective Integrated Care systems across England’. Its focus was on making ICS intentions, aims and vision a reality, something I absolutely applaud. The LGA and CIPFA have...
by George Boyd | Jan 22, 2021 | Adult social care, Health, Local government transformation
Sharon Brennan’s recent article in the HSJ (‘Treasury ‘the barrier’ as full hospitals desperate to discharge patients to social care’) reported that the Treasury was unwilling to pay for the additional insurance costs that would enable care homes to take on thousands...
by George Boyd | Dec 18, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Health
Find out who has inspired me this year… Kate Smith is Head of Intermediate Care at Somerset County Council & NHS Somerset and has been instrumental to the success of our work with the Health and Social care system in Somerset. Covid has seen significant...
