Care and Health Solutions

Community Care Live 2010 – ‘CHS to present on reablement.’

MarkLloyd — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:14:34 +0000

In conjunction with the University of York Social Policy Research Unit, Mark Lloyd Director of CHS will jointly present at the Community Care Live 2010 Conference taking place in London on the 18th May 2010. This follows on from their successful joint collaboration during 2009 in presenting a webinar for Community Care on the research and practice findings of the new reablement model.

Reablement is about providing a more intensive package of support to people, often discharged from a period in hospital, with the purpose of enabling the individual to gain the highest level of independence during a short term intervention programme. Mark Lloyd has designed and led the introduction of the model in Essex achieving extremely encouraging results in the first year of operation; seeing a substantial drop in the numbers of people subsequently requiring longer term care support.

For further information please see our information sheet contained on the reablement link on our home page.

“Jerome tells providers to develop innovative services”

MarkLloyd — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:21:24 +0000

This week in Community Care Jeff Jerome, who is charged with helping Councils implement the three-year Putting People First Programme has said, “Councils must encourage adult care providers to develop innovative services, rather than see providers as recipients of contracts, as part of a cultural shift to help implement personalisation.”

This culture shift is vital if the Government target on personalisation of 30% of users and carers being on personal budgets by April 2011 is to be achieved. The option of the Local Authority Trading Company for former in-house provider services remains an attractive vehicle to facilitate change and adapt former in-house services. Freedom to trade will allow such trading companies to develop new Personal Assistance Agencies and transform day service models towards community responsive services. Fundemetally the model provides opportunity for Council former in-house services to adapt and remain competitive in the changing market place. For more information please see our information sheet on LATC’s on our home page.

CHS advise Councils on the LATC model

MarkLloyd — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:31:44 +0000

Following the successful implementation of the Essex LATC by CHS a number of like minded Councils are being assisted by CHS in developing the model. This will see new opportunity for in house adult social provider service arms and enable services to be adapted in meeting both efficiency requirements and the implementation of the Personalisation agenda. The LATC model continues to offer the best option for many provider arms to remain competitive and respond to the need to remodel the service base. For more information on the LATC model please visit our home page information sheet.

Capita’s 4th National Conference – 21st January 2010 – ‘Delivering the Next Wave of Cashable Public Sector Savings.’

MarkLloyd — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:49:14 +0000

CHS Director’s Mark Lloyd and Mike Walsh will be speakers at Capita’s Annual Conference on - Improvement and Efficiencies in the Public Sector – Delivering the Next Wave of Cashable Savings. The event to be held in central London and addressed by Bob Neill MP, Shadow Minister for Local Government and will focus on supporting Local Authorities prioritising 2010 as the time to realise crucial, joined-up value for money Savings. Mark and Mike will share their Essex County Council experience in making efficiency savings through Personalisation focusing on the recent externalisation of the former in-house adult provider services into one of the Country’s first Local Authority Trading Companies (LATC) - Essex Cares. As a consequence considerable financial savings have been delivered for the Council. Mark and Mike will also discuss the track record CHS now has of advising a number of Council’s on the benefits of the LATC model for a range of service provision generating substantive savings and value for money outcomings. For more information on this forth coming national conference visit www.capitaconferences.co.uk

CHS hold Seminars on LATC Model

MarkLloyd — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:11:58 +0000

CHS with Trowers and Hamlins have held two successful seminars in Manchester and London for Local Authorities and County Councils regarding the Local Authority Trading Company Model. During the two seminars which were attended by over 40 Councils CHS presented on their experience in delivering the LATC model Essex Cares for the Essex County Councils which has seen both improved outcomes for service users and significant savings achieved.

CHS will be running further seminars in 2010 on other social care related topics and will advise further in the New Year.

For summary details on the LATC model please go to our link on the home page or contact mark@careandhealthsolutions.co.uk

Community Care Webinar held on Reablement

MarkLloyd — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:50:43 +0000

Mark Lloyd became one of the first guest speakers on the new Community Care Webinar during November. The webinar model which is set to become extremely popular allows an audience to log in through their computer and avoid the expense of travelling to a conference. This was one of the first of two webinar’s run by Community Care under the stewardship of Mark Ivory.

Mark Lloyd was invited as a lead practitioner on behalf of Essex in delivering the new Reablement model. A televised 30 minute debate with fellow guest speaker Professor Caroline Glendinning of the Social Policy Unit at York University was logged into by over 30 Councils was proceeded with a stream of on line questions.

For more details on this webinar or indeed others contact Community Care or Lexis Nexis.

Tasman Oxlade joins CHS

MarkLloyd — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:04:53 +0000

CHS welcomes Tasman Oxlade as a new Director of the company. Tasman was the Progamme Director for the ’Putting People First Programme’ for Essex County Council. At present Tasman consults for the National Director for Social Care Transformation on the National Putting People First Programme which provides support and guidance for all Councils. More details on Tasman’s career can be found on the ‘about us’ page.

Community Care Online Seminar – 12 November – the key to Reablement

MarkLloyd — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:53:51 +0000

RMark Lloyd CHS Director will be one of the first ‘expert’ speakers to appear on the new Community Care Magazine online seminars on the 12th November 2009. Mark will share his experience of working for Essex Cares in developing the new Reablement Service – an intensive six week progamme of support and intervention focused on assisting people discharged from hospital move towards greater independence.

Details on this Community Care can be found at www.confererencesandtraining.com/communitycareonlineseminars

Trowers and Hamlins LATC Seminars with CHS

MarkLloyd — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:51:07 +0000

CHS in partnership with Trowers and Hamlins will be holding two seminars on the 17th November 2009 in Manchester and 1st December 2009 in London. Both free lunch time seminars for Directors of Adult Social Services or their representives will focus on the legal, financial, human resource, and operational requirements to deliver externalisation of Adult Social Care Services through an LATC model as an alternative to Social Enterprise and as recently delivered by CHS Directors in Essex.

For further information please contact mark@careandhealthsolutions.co.uk or events@trowers.com

How will Essex’s Council Owned Care Delivery Company Operate?

MarkLloyd — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:59:58 +0000

Community Care in this weeks magazine (11th October 2009) carry a feature with the above title on the launch of Essex Cares as a model for other local authorities and county councils to follow – described as the middleway forward the Local Authority Trading Company provides a solution for Councils in maintaining cost effective and commercial focused services which were once in-house but are now externalised. At the same time Councils as the shareholder can expect a return on the improved efficiencies. As a model many County Councils and Local Authorities may consider the LATC as an alternative to the more well known Social Enterprise legal entity which is more arms length from Council control and share ownership. www.communitycare.co.uk/…/essex-cares-is-first-local-authority-trading-company-for-social.html