Social care services need to become ‘more flexible’ to ensure an ‘effective and integrated urgent and emergency care system,’ the Department of Health has been told.
A report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) suggested the need for emergency admissions could be reduced by ‘ensuring that social care professionals are accessible as and when needed’.
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