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Sets out the technical detail of each adult social care outcomes framework (ASCOF) measure.
Introduction The measures (also called metrics) contained in this handbook…
Sets out how commissioners and providers of care services should protect vulnerable adults.
Sets out the government's quality standards for health and social care services for older people.
Sets out how responsible authorities should ensure continuity of care for adults who receive care and support and move to another country in the UK.
19 factsheets and a glossary that accompany the Care Bill.
Sets out the progress made in applying the lessons learned from the failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
Guidance on deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) as a result of the Supreme Court judgments.
A guide to training the social care and health workforce.
Midwifery visual strategy
Sets out the indicators for measuring adult social care outcomes in 2013 and 2014.
Guidance on data reporting requirements for the NHS friends and family test.
Background, requirements and implications of putting into practice a national friends and family test within the NHS.
Explains the connection between the Adult Social Care Framework, the NHS Outcomes Framework and the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
Explains how the national friends and family test results and data should be published.
Guidance on the time limits applicable from April 2012 for requests on review of eligibility decisions for NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding.
Adult social care engagement exercise.
Review of progress in improving the quality of care for vulnerable people, following abuse of residents at Winterbourne View hospital.
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