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The Hubble Project – developed by the National Care Forum (NCF) with funding from NHS Digital’s Digital Pathfinders Programme - enables care providers to learn from others who have introduced technology.

Not enough local authorities or care providers are using available technology within social care to keep people safe, happy and healthy at home, according to the final report of an ADASS/TSA Commission exploring the issue launched today at the 2021 ITEC conference.

A cross-party group of MPs and Peers have joined forces with leaders from academia, finance, local politics and housing to call for urgent Government action to improve housing and care options for older people, in a new ‘Housing with Care Grey Paper’ published ARCO. The paper says the UK is at a “critical juncture” and one of its recommendations calls for a cross-government Housing with Care Task Force.

The supply of retirement communities needs to be boosted by a third over the next 20 years to keep up with demographic change, according to latest research by the International Longevity Centre.

The government has published a White Paper, ‘Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all’ white paper’, that sets out proposals to join up health and care services and embed lessons learned from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic for a Health and Care Bill. Could part of a new integrated care system in England look like the arrangements in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?

This TSA paper provides a set of actions that will aid in the protection of services and service users as part of the digital switchover.

This booklet captures the diaries of Cruse Bereavement Volunteers offering bereavement support to clients across the UK or volunteer Bereavement Supporters offering peer support to fellow residents within their ExtraCare Charitable Trust’s retirement village communities in England during lockdown.

This is a working draft of a proposed Health in Housing Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for organisations in West Sussex to co-develop and make a collective commitment towards the use of housing to improve the long-term health and wellbeing of our communities.