Rescare received this newsletter from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
Even after two readings, it still seems very complicated: “On 2 April the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (formerly National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) announced its new role in social care. This includes the establishment of the NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care which is a consortium led by and located at SCIE. The Collaborating Centre will use NICE methods to develop NICE social care guidance, which in turn will be used to develop quality standards. Quality standards are concise statements designed to drive and measure improvements in care. The Collaborating Centre will also support dissemination and adoption of guidance and quality standards. The Collaborating Centre is a consortium led by SCIE with Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre); Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU); Research in Practice (RiP) and Research in Practice for Adults (RiPfA).“
The key message seems to be that NICE has a new and extensive role in social care; and that the intention is to develop improved quality standards through the SCIE-led Collaborating Centre.
Rescare’s hope is that those quality stardards are ultimately used and applied ‘on the ground’.