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Privately Funded Care Arrangements May Still Amount To A Deprivation Of Liberty
To be re-written by Ridouts The Court of Protection handed down a judgment on 24 May 2016 which is of significance for all deputies and case managers working with clients whose privately funded care packages may amount to a deprivation of liberty. It’s also relevant...
Princess Alexandra Hospital Outpatient Referral Process Change
In line with the National Health Service’s plan to be paperless by 2020, The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) will only be accepting outpatient referrals made via e-Referral (formerly Choose and Book) from the 1st of July 2016. Any outpatient referrals sent via post...
Would You Like to Advertise Your Residential Bed Vacancies for Fully Funded?
HCPA are able to offer all of their residential home members the opportunity to advertise their bed vacancies Fully Funded of charge on the new website Herts Care Home Finder. Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's) now have access...
Spot Contract Opportunities – Support At Home
Integrated Community Support Commissioning team will be hosting two Pre-Procurement Market Engagement sessions to enable providers to be part of the scoping and design of their future model for spot contract arrangements which will be re-tendered and in place ready...
Hertfordshire’s very own Dragon’s Den – Your chance to shine!
On Wednesday 8th June we ran the second successful Members Network Event of 2016. Managers, owners and directors of all different service types came together to hear about the latest in health and social care integration in Hertfordshire. They also explored tender and...
Voting in the EU referendum
Here is a link to a film that may help people with learning disabilities on how to vote for the EU referendum. The learning disability charity Brandon Trust has produced a video guide to the EU referendum to encourage everybody to take the opportunity to vote. People...
Notification from HCC: Policy Update – Information For Care Home Providers
In order to ensure fairness to care providers, Hertfordshire County Council have agreed to fund care home placements at a higher, negotiated rate, for those care home residents who are receiving interim funding assistance from the Council. The clients affected are...
