An open access paper is now available for all to read discussing decision making when deciding whether to transfer care home residents to hospital.

Integrated care systems (ICSs) and provider collaboratives are ushering in a move towards more collaborative working across organisations in health, social care and the voluntary and community sector – and digital health technologies have an important role to play. Digital technologies can help information and communication to flow across organisations, people and places, bringing benefits for both patients and staff, eg, fewer tests, improved patient safety, reduced costs and saving both patients and staff time. However, using digital health technologies to overcome silos, often referred to as interoperability, has been a longstanding challenge.

The Universities of Bristol, Kent, Liverpool, and Oxford, along with The London School of Economics and Political Science, supported by National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaborations are conducting a research study looking at care planning in care homes and how it can support and improve the wellbeing of their residents.

Adult social care workers – who are mostly women – are among the lowest paid in the UK.

If you are interested in social care and research partnerships, you won’t want to miss this event hosted by NIHR ARC Wessex.

Are you a care home manager? Would you be interested in taking part in a one-off (online) meeting to explore the relationships care home have with their communities? If so please get in contact.

Do you want to know how to create open, fun and accessible content for dissemination? Then this is for you.

Professor Catherine Walshe, Co-Director of the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University, explains how delivering research in care homes is becoming increasingly important with an ageing population. She discusses how research can be championed and facilitated in these settings.

Study shows a link between working conditions, care quality and residents’ quality of life. Researchers report that policies to improve working conditions for staff are essential to improve outcomes for people living in care homes.

A networking opportunity for researchers, stakeholders and public and patient representatives from across the Care Home sector.