CARE MATTERS Podcast

Sustainable Care & COVID-19: Homecare during the pandemic: how can technology aid care provision?

Sustainable Care & COVID-19: Homecare during the pandemic: how can technology aid care provision?

Dr Diane Burns introduces this episode in which Sustainable Care researchers, Dr Cate Goodlad and Dr Kate Hamblin, are joined by Tommy Henderson-Reay from the National Care Forum. They discuss emerging models of homecare delivery in the UK, the various ways homecare providers deployed technologies during the pandemic and the challenges they faced.

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Dr Diane Burns is a Senior Lecture at the Management School at the University of Sheffield and she Led the research project, 'Delivering care at home: emerging models and their implications for sustainability and wellbeing' as part of the Sustainable Care Programme. Dr Cate Goodlad also worked on this project with Diane.

Dr Kate Hamblin is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities (CIRCLE) and led the research project 'Achieving sustainability in care systems: the potential of technology'.

Tommy Henderson-Reay is Digital Transformation Lead at the National Care Forum, he is part of the Digital Social Care project and is also a registered social worker.

 

Useful links mentioned in/relating to this episode:

• Tommy Henderson-Reay's profile page at the National Care Forum
• Dr Cate Goodlad's profile page at CIRCLE
• Dr Kate Hamblin's profile page at CIRCLE
• Dr Diane Burns' profile page at the University of Sheffield
• The Hubble Project: Digital Innovation Hubs
• Digital Social Care website
   

  Learn more about Sustainable Care on our website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/

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Sustainable Care & COVID-19: Technology Enabled Care Services and the pandemic: a catalyst for change

Sustainable Care Co-Investigator, Dr Kate Hamblin is joined by special guests Mark Allen, Head of Technology Enabled Care, Hampshire County Council and Alyson Scurfield, Chief Executive, TEC Services Association (TSA).

In this episode, Kate explores how the pandemic has been a catalyst for change for the Technology Enabled Care sector. Mark Allen gives great insight on how Hampshire County Council used technology during a time of unprecedented change and demand, reflecting on what the sector might learn from the crisis. Alyson Scurfield provides an industry-wide perspective on the pandemic’s impact for TSA members, TEC’s support to vulnerable communities and how the TSA supported the TEC sector with an intense outreach programme and obtaining key worker status for its workforce.

 

Links mentioned in/relating to this episode

1. The joint ADASS-TSA Commission Findings and Recommendations – “How Can Technology Be Truly Integrated into Adult Social Care - https://www.tsa-voice.org.uk/adass-tsa-comm/
2. The TSA Sector Insight Report - https://www.tsa-voice.org.uk/campaigns/download-the-tsa-sector-insight-report-2020/
3. The TSA Leadership Report – strategic priorities for the TEC sector to 2025 - https://www.tsa-voice.org.uk/campaigns/leadership-report/

Learn more about Sustainable Care on our website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/

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Sustainable Care & COVID-19: Transnational care in the pandemic

Sustainable Care Co-Investigator Professor Majella Kilkey is joined by special guests Professor Loretta Baldassar (University of Western Australia) and Professor Laura Merla (University of Louvain) to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transnational care arrangements. 

 

Useful links mentioned in this episode:

• Baldassar & Krzyzowski (2020). Blog: ‘Physical, not social distancing: what we can learn from migrants; https://livinglab.com.au/4548-2/
• Special issue on Transnational care: families confronting borders:https://ubp.uni-bamberg.de/jfr/index.php/jfr/issue/view/47
• Fine and Tronto on care being made visible by the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/tpp/ijcc/2020/00000004/00000003/art00002
• The care circulation book edited by Loretta and Laura: https://www.routledge.com/Transnational-Families-Migration-and-the-Circulation-of-Care-Understanding/Baldassar-Merla/p/book/9781138952935

Learn more about Sustainable Care on our website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/

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Sustainable Care & COVID-19: Reforming adult social care - what COVID has told us

Sustainable Care Research Associate Patrick Hall is joined by David James (Head of Adult Social Care Policy, Care Quality Commission & member of the Sustainable Care programme Advisory Board), Tim Parkin (Senior Policy Advisor, Think Local Act Personal) and Kate Sibthorp (member of Think Local Act Personal’s National Co-production Advisory Group). In this episode they discuss how the development of Adult Social Care systems has been influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic, how important community communication is and TLAP's 'Making it Real'- a framework for how to do personalised care and support.

 

Learn more about Think Local Act Personal here: https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/About-us/

Learn more about Think Local Act Personal's Making it Real framework here: https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/makingitreal/

Tim Parkin's profile page: https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/About-us/Team-members/

David James' profile page: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/about/david-james/

Kate Sibthorp's blog page: https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/Blog/author/Kate-Sibthorp/

 

Learn more about Sustainable Care on our website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/

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CARE MATTERS: Social Prescribing: improving people’s wellbeing by connecting them with their communities

In this episode, CARE MATTERS podcast producer Dan Williamson interviews Tim Anfilogoff to find out more about Social Prescribing. They explore the current role it plays in Social Care in England, the development and roll out of Social Prescribing and some challenges facing it and the people that use it.

Tim is Head of Community Resilience for the two Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups, and NHS England’s Social Prescribing Regional Facilitator for the East of England. Tim is also a member of the Sustainable Care programme’s Advisory Board.

Learn more about Sustainable Care on our website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/

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CARE MATTERS: ‘Gig economy’ care platform models: impacts for the workforce and the market- Dr Karla Zimpel-Leal & Dr Fiona Macdonald

Dr Karla Zimpel-Leal (University of Sheffield) welcomes Dr Fiona Macdonald (RMIT University) to talk about her research on care platform models, or uberisation, and her latest publication at the International Journal of Care and Caring titled 'Personalised risk’ in paid care work and the impacts of ‘gig economy’ care platforms. Both draw on their research in the UK and in Australia to highlight careworkers' experiences of working within these models, and the impact of these models on the care market.

Learn more about Sustainable Care on our website: http://circle.group.shef.ac.uk/

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CARE MATTERS: Long-term care services in the EU: issues of access and quality- Dr Kelly Davidge & Rob Anderson

Dr Kelly Davidge and former Head of the Social Policies Unit at Eurofound, Rob Anderson, recorded this episode on 10th December 2020.

Rob explains the characteristics of Long-term Care Services, how they feature in EU policies and programmes, Eurofound's contribution to research on these services and what issues there are for further research & service development in this area.

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CARE MATTERS: Care and caring in Europe: common challenges, common solutions? Dr Kate Hamblin and Stecy Yghemonos (Eurocarers)

Sustainable Care Co-Investigator, Kate Hamblin, is joined by Stecy Yghemonos, Executive Director of Eurocarers. They discuss the impact of Brexit on social care in the UK, links between social and economic dimensions of care, formal and informal care, the impact of COVID-19 on carers and more.

 

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CARE MATTERS: ECR network- Part Three ’Cultural and gender aspects of care’

'Cultural and gender aspects of care' with Obert Tawodzera, Camille Allard, Breda Moloney and Wing Yee Lam

To learn more about our research visit the CIRCLE website

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CARE MATTERS: ECR network- Part Two ’Technology in care and COVID-19’

'Technology in care and COVID-19' with Obert Tawodzera, Camille Allard, Breda Moloney and Wing Yee Lam

To learn more about our research visit the CIRCLE website

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