Articles from IPPO

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   The adult social care market in England: insights and recommendations ahead of future social care reforms

   March 27, 2021

   • Care Homes

   National Audit Office (25.03.21) The Department of Health & Social Care is responsible for setting national policy and the legal framework. This report examines the current care market and the Department’s role in overseeing the market now and in the future, with the aim of offering insights and recommendations ahead of future social care reforms. COVID-19 has focused attention on social care as never before. It has highlighted existing problems with social care and emphasised significant gaps in the Department’s understanding of the market. However, we have also seen substantial efforts from...

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   Roundtable report: what should be done to improve mental health and wellbeing in UK care homes?

   March 26, 2021

   • Care Homes

   • Data

   • roundtable report

   Our latest IPPO roundtable looked at the situation in care homes – and, in particular, what’s happened to the mental wellbeing of both residents and staff, and what can be done to help them bounce back

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   A year of tracking COVID-19 policies in 186 countries: what are the key lessons for governments?

   March 26, 2021

   • Data

   • Vaccine

   IPPO partner the Blavatnik School of Government’s COVID-19 Tracker is the largest repository of global evidence relating to pandemic policies. One year on from its launch, the team behind the tracker reflect on what they have learned

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   The dilemma of opening up: a rapid call for evidence on the issue of vaccine passports and unequal freedoms

   March 24, 2021

   • Vaccine

   Over the next few months, every country will face a common and tricky challenge: how do you open up in ways that recognise that some of your population have had the vaccine, and so should arguably be treated differently from those who haven’t?

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