Stop press: Shared Lives outperforms all other forms of care

News just in today, is that care inspectors CQC have published their annual State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England. For the first time they have disaggregated Shared Lives from their ‘community care’ category and we’re glad they did: Shared Lives outperforms all other forms of regulated care, including other forms of community care. This is also consistent with the report’s finding that smaller settings are generally better than larger settings. Here is table 2.10. Shared Lives results are in yellow and include what I think is the report’s only 100% compliance statistic for adult social care:

 

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