Challenges and Opportunities

MRS Healthcare Conference

Health & Social Care

12th February 2015

• Danielle Campbell, Madano Partnership

• Dominic Briant, British Red Cross

• Beth Anderson, Social Care Institute for Excellence

• Karl Demian, Royal Voluntary Service

• In the past 10 years, the number of people aged 65 and over in England has

increased by 1.4 million, a 17% rise

• There is a 17% rise in people reaching their 80th birthday

What is causing this?

Source: BBC

About one in two people aged 65 and over have some kind of care need (4m people)

Have a care need Age over 65 with no care need

Source: BBC

Roughly half of people with a care need, have difficulty with daily tasks (2m people)

Have a care need Age over 65 with no care need Need help with daily tasks

370,000 people receive council funded home care (19% of the 2m with a care need)

Have a care need Age over 65 with no care need Receive council funded care

Source: BBC

Madano, commissioned by the British Red Cross investigated:

• the changing context of the commissioning of Independent Living Services and how this

affects voluntary providers in this space

-move to integrated commissioning, responsibility now falls to Local Authorities and CCGs but it’s

not yet clear who is responsible for what

-the impact of the Care Bill is not yet clear, but opinion is positive

• What do users’ require from independent living services?

-personalised care but what does this mean to users?

Research

• Ensure high-quality services that promote wellbeing

• Work with other agencies in an integrated way

• Make best use of local resources

Research skills to analyse demand, trends, preferences etc.

• ‘Need’ and outcomes are complex

• Interventions are hugely diverse

• Benefits often realised over the longer-term

Fit-for-purpose evaluation & data-gathering

• Advice about services to inform decision-making

• Accessibility and acceptability

• Process and outcome important

Different mechanisms to gather data inc. “coproduction”

Shape the market

Prevent, delay or reduce need

Inform & involve people

The Care Act: some implications for research

CHOICE, CONTROL, INDEPENDENCE, WELLBEING

Contact information

Beth Anderson, Head of Research &

Information

email beth.anderson@scie.org.uk

tel: 020 7024 7729

www.scie.org.uk