Health and Social Care Bill in Final Stages of Parliamentary Review

The Bill’s primary aims are threefold: to create an independent NHS Board, to promote patient choice, and to reduce NHS administration costs. Specifically, the changes proposed are to:

• Moving & Handling
• Health & Safety
• Dementia care
• Food hygiene
• Risk assessment
• Handling medication
• Safeguarding

These changes are likely to have an impact on the social care employment market, as the NHS and local authorities will need to work more closely together to administer the changes and to increase efficiency under the new legislation.

BS Social Care provides quality permanent and temporary recruitment services to employers of care services and professionals. We will be closely monitoring both the progress of the bill and its effect on the market. Keeping you updated with the latest news on the social care employment situation in light of any new legislation.