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Navigating the cost of care 📖 Knowing where to begin with funding care at home can be challenging, especially as there are many different options out there and it may not always be clear which apply to you or your loved one. There are a range of different options available to those seeking care at home, including: ✨ Private funding - covering care costs independently ✨ Personal budgets - these allocate funds tailored to your needs ✨ Direct payments - receiving money directly to manage your care ✨ NHS funding - accessing healthcare-funded support ✨ Local Authority funding - getting financial assistance from your local council Funding care can be a tricky subject to discuss with a loved one. During a Care Consultation, a senior member of our team will help to identify which options may be suitable, depending on the individual's personal situation and their requirements. You can find further information about funding care through our website here: https://lnkd.in/eR9aczEQ If you have any queries about the costs of care, funding options, or a loved one's care needs, you can request a free consultation with one of our experts. If you'd like to learn more about the services we offer, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. We'd love to discuss how we can support you or your loved ones. ☎ 01923 521 004 ✉ watford@bridgewaterhomecare.co.uk 🌐 https://lnkd.in/dcXv9Q3t Watford & West Herts Chamber of Commerce (W3RT) Bridgewater Home Care Franchise Hannah Say

There's no doubt that we need more investment in Palliative and End of Life Care services in this country, of course including hospices as a key provider. I find the term "hospice care" confusing. There is no single definition in the UK, and different hospices (ie charitable providers of Palliative and End of Life Care services) provide different things. Many people aspire to receiving care from a hospice at the end of their life but I'm not convinced they really know what this means. Generally hospices focus on providing Specialist Palliative Care to dying people/families with the most complex needs, but they also often provide advice or education to the many other providers caring for people with less complex needs. A huge amount of care for people in their last year or so of life is actually provided by other health and social care professionals eg GPs, Geriatricians, District Nurses, Care Homes etc, receiving additional support if needed from Specialist Palliative Care Services (sometimes provided by charitable hospices, sometimes by NHS Specialist Palliative Care teams depending on what's available in a given area). As non-NHS organisations, hospices can choose where to locate themselves (often decided many years ago by local philanthropists) and what services to provide. They may or may not provide inpatient care, community care, outpatients, education etc. For this reason the focus on equity in the new HUK strategy is very welcome. There are also many purely NHS funded Specialist Palliative Care services providing similar things which aren't called hospices and therefore don't fall under the Hospice UK umbrella. Hospices are certainly key players in the palliative and end of life care ecosystem, with their charitable status allowing them the independence and flexibility to provide a higher standard of care than might be possible with meagre government funding alone. Hopefully NHS commissioners have oversight of what services are needed where and use their scant budgets to fund provision of the services they feel are needed locally from whichever provider they feel is most appropriate - perhaps NHS, perhaps charity or other non-NHS/private provider. Please do support your local hospice, but please also support improved funding for all health and social care services looking after people in their last year of life. Hospices are hugely important but they are just one (big) piece of a complex health and social care puzzle.

A deep and more nuanced look at the controversial surgeon turned operator. It's a tale of drive, dedication, and ambition born from a desire to disrupt the healthcare status quo. I'm guessing many of my doctor colleagues who aspire to change healthcare through innovation, entrepreneurship, and physician leadership will find themselves (perhaps uncomfortably) identifying with a young Dr. de la Torre. Personally, I found some parallels to de la Torre's path and vision and my own journey. A desire to understand the broader mechanics of healthcare delivery and to leverage that knowledge (along with an understanding of clinical medicine) to solve problems. The belief that understanding how and why something is broken is the first step in creating effective fixes. As seems so often to be the case in these high stakes, big money situations dominated by high performers, ego and greed eventually took over. More likely, they were always there but became increasingly unrestrained. The article sparked some reflection. Is it possible to step outside of the machinery to achieve change or are we fooling ourselves into believing incumbency is escapable? To make any headway in healthcare, are ego and greed necessary companions of drive, ambition, and vision? (The best laid schemes.) Is most talk of healthcare disruption window dressing meant to obscure the same motives in a slightly different package? How do we keep these efforts from losing their way? As a side note, it seems silly to make distinctions between "for-profit" and "not-for-profit" entities as though one is, by definition, sinister, and the other altruistic. We know in healthcare it ain't that simple. We also shouldn't let tales of yachts and private school donations completely distract us from other important (but less salacious) aspects of the story. Community hospitals are struggling. The need for better solutions persists. As the story points out, questionable management or not, the Steward takeover allowed these faltering hospitals to stay open. (It seems a bit tone deaf for large Massachusetts health systems to comment on profit motive and opine on the bygone days of healthcare that put patients first). Take what lessons we can. Much to learn. #medicine #healthcare #health #healthcareinnovation #businessofmedicine #ambition #drive

Sausage sizzles to stay afloat! Andrew Swanson-Dobbs, our CEO, was interviewed by RNZ yesterday to talk about financial pressures, burnout and more alarmingly practices who are seeking other means to keep afloat, with examples of sausage sizzles and asking patients to "pay one forward". "In my patch, we've got a number of community trusts that own those services because they want health services to remain in their village, and they need to raise money in order to be able to afford doctors and nurses working in those practices so those communities can maintain care." "What we really do need to do is reorientate to keeping people well in primary care. We really need to pivot the whole health system to prevention, early intervention and services closer to home. Basically, if we want general practice to be here into the future, we need to value it, and we need to fund it so that people want to work in it." Read more here, and tell us what you think. https://lnkd.in/gVNADXzn from RNZ.

We are live right now discussing why investing in aftercare pays off! Join us and ask any questions you may have! https://lnkd.in/ga_M635d #FuneralHome #Hospice #ServiceBasedAftercare

We are live right now discussing why investing in aftercare pays off! Join us and ask any questions you may have! https://lnkd.in/ga_M635d #FuneralHome #Hospice #ServiceBasedAftercare

We are live right now discussing why investing in aftercare pays off! Join us and ask any questions you may have! https://lnkd.in/ga_M635d #FuneralHome #Hospice #ServiceBasedAftercare

Did you know? While 35% of people trust the healthcare system to help them live longer, only 18% believe it puts well-being ahead of profits. This Hospice + Palliative Care Month, we’re spotlighting our People Over Profits blueprint, a guide filled with insights and resources for families. Take Shanu’s story—caring for her parents and in-laws, she navigates a complex system that often feels impersonal, yet she brings a spirit of community and shared responsibility to her role. Read about Shanu’s journey and explore how compassionate, mission-driven care can transform healthcare for all of us: https://lnkd.in/ese2vc9g #HospiceMonth #PeopleOverProfits #CareHeroes

Asking for your thoughts on another #ProfitsOverPatients issue. When a loved one turns to #hospice services for quality end-of-life care, the last thing we should have to worry about is investigating if they're a for-profit or a nonprofit firm. Turns out, we do. "Across all CAHPS measures, Private Equity Firms or Publicly Traded Companies-owned hospices demonstrated the lowest performance and not-for-profit hospices the highest performance." #PrivateEquity ownership has already been proven to lead to terrible metrics in hospitals, shuttering of essential departments like maternity or pediatrics for profitability reasons, turning doctors and nurses into factory workers, increased #MedicalError and lower #PatientSafety measures. Isn't it time to ask Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and The Joint Commission to fix this? What would you ask them to do? I'll start. Ban the finance bros from healthcare altogether. https://lnkd.in/e--qhzfH? Ronald W. Peter Pronovost MD, PhD, FCCM Tom S. Lee Suzanne Schrandt Susan Brown Sheridan Armando Nahum Helen Haskell Dan Berg Io Dolka Kathy McDonald Dean Sittig Kevin Wake, CMR, CHW, M.S. Carole Hemmelgarn Beth D. Martin Hatlie Rosemary(Rosie) Bartel Leslie Tucker Kelly Smith, MBE Kristen Miller Traber D. Giardina David L Meyers Mark Graber Soojin Jun, PharmD, BCGP, CPPS, CPHQ ❤️ Ann Gaffey, RN, MSN, CPHRM, DFASHRM Tina Grande Stacy Hurt 🌻 Dave deBronkart Erika Hanson Brown - CONNECTOR for CANCER PATIENTS and ORGS Monica D. Susan Bartlett Denise Wiseman Peggy Zuckerman National Quality Forum (NQF) Helen W. Hernandez Gwen Mayes, JD, MMSc Clarinda Cerejo

456,976 is the number of four-letter domains available on the internet and now, HCAN.com is one of them! We got it! Here is the tale....In 2018 as HCAN was being developed we knew that the words ADVOCACY and the word THRIVE resonated with Healthcare Decision Makers. These 45–64-year-old females, making decisions for their mom and dad wanted to find an advocate who could help them on their journey, and they wanted their parents to THRIVE. That is the wish of any healthcare decision maker! WE knew we wanted an easy way for healthcare decision makers to spot us, so we developed HomeCare Advocacy Network, a place where these special individuals could find reliable care that has quality outcomes to help with everything mom needs. Personal care services, dementia care, errands, we do it all. We are just what "Lisa", our term for the 45–64-year-old female who is the prototype healthcare DM, needs. We needed an address for LISA to find great care however, I got it, let's get HCAN.com we thought! Guess what? There are only 456,976 4 letter domains in the universe and HCAN was sold years ago, and they wanted $65,000 to buy the domain from them! Whoa, couldn't do it. Fast forward to HCAN board leadership asking the same questions in 2024 so we investigated again and guess what, domains at times go on sale! Bridget Bear went to work, and we got it secured. There is a .0004 chance to have a website with a powerful 4 letter domain. This is more than I EVER dreamed I would write about 4-letter domains, the power behind a 4-letter domain or the internet in general. HAHA. So pleased that HomeCare Advocacy Network has a new address for seniors and the ones who love them! Come find us at HCAN.com! Franchise Brokers AssociationInternational Franchise Professionals Group - IFPG