LGiU Caring for People theme update

Welcome to the June LGiU Caring for People theme update.
 

What we’ve been up to:

• I just attended a really uplifting seminar on supporting people with advanced stage dementia with music. It was organised by the American charity Music and Memory who are seeking to expand their programme to the UK. And they've got some cracking evidence of cost-effectiveness.  I wrote about it here. 
• One of the key asks from delegates at our March roundtable on Achieving Outcomes Based Commissioning was for us to help sharing examples, progress and frustrations. To that end, we've developed a one question survey asking for your experience with Outcomes Based Commissioning.  We intend to publish examples (credited or anonymously) in the Knowledge Hub's Caring for People Group. 
• We recently published a new brief report on Achieving Outcomes Based Commissioning in Home Care. 
• We are finalising arrangements for a development partnership for our social care app CoCare.  We hope to be able to make an announcement soon. 

• A bitter pill to swallow - viewpoint on proposed cuts to community pharmacy funding

• Health, public health and social care round-up - includes a grim round-up of the financial precariousness of the residential care sector. Our report on the planning for care provider failure is here and you don't need to be an LGiU Member. 
• Mindful Nation UK - health and wellbeing benefits of mindfulness
• An overview of health and social care integration in Scotland
• Early evaluation of the integrated care and support programme 

MPs have launched an enquiry into whether councils have enough money to meet their Care Act Duties and have issued a call for evidence. 

Get involvedIf you already have a Knowledge Hub account then please join our LGiU network here
https://khub.net/lgiu and join the Caring for People Community.  Say hello or discuss outcomes based commissioning.  If you don't, register here:https://khub.net  You do not need to be an LGiU member to join this network. 

Your stories
Don't forget to take our 'one-question' survey on outcomes based commissioning that we'll share in the Knowledge Hub. In the survey, you can also propose a topic for next month's one question survey. 

The LGiU is majoring on five policy themes in 2016. This is the June roundup for Caring for People.  You can also sign up for updates from our other themes.

Ingrid Koehler
Caring for People theme lead
@ingridk