NCF roundtable debates winter care pressures following Nuffield Trust report publication

The National Care Forum (NCF) has hosted a roundtable in conjunction with the Health Service Journal (HSJ) to bring together key strategic leaders across health and social care to create shared solutions to winter pressures. The roundtable centred on several key themes that NCF’s not-for-profit provider membership believes would improve system-wide partnership working to ensure […]
Care workforce realities highlighted in survey

Care services managers in the UK are experiencing an average staff vacancy rate of 17%, leading to a significant reduction in the amount of care available because there are not enough staff to run services at the level that people, hospitals and communities desperately need. That’s according to a survey conducted by the National Care […]
NCF & QCS publish ‘Winter Ready’ COVID-19 guide for care homes

Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) and the National Care Forum (NCF) have pooled their resources to create a comprehensive guide for the care sector, as the UK braces itself for a second wave of coronavirus and a sharp increase in influenza cases this winter. The 50-page document, entitled ‘Winter Ready’, has been specifically created to help […]
NCF and NHS Digital launch Hubble Project to push tech in care

A new project has been launched by the National Care Forum with funding from NHS Digital’s Digital Pathfinders Programme to help care providers to successfully introduce, use and evaluate technology. The Hubble Project offers senior decision makers the chance to virtually visit ‘innovation hubs’ (via webinar) to learn how other care providers have introduced, used and […]