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HANSARDCovid-19: Adult Social Care ComplaintsMy Lords, it is essential that people can voice concerns about their care and have complaints properly investigated. The ombudsman is a vital part of that process. The ombudsman…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismMy Lords, let me clarify with an update on the numbers. As of 25 September 2020, 690 deaths from Covid of people with learning disabilities have been reported to the leader…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismMy Lords, the guidance for day centres in particular is not something I know the specific date for, but I would be glad to take my noble friend’s question back to the department…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Adult Social Care ComplaintsThe noble Baroness is entirely right that in April 2016 we committed, in fact sheets about the Care Act, to introduce an appeals process. That is still on the horizon, but this is…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismMy Lords, we recognise that the pandemic presents serious risks and challenges for people with a learning disability and autistic people. That is why we have increased provision…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Adult Social Care ComplaintsThe noble Baroness is entirely right. There are very good arguments for combining the two ombudsmen and that is recognised by both of them. However, the framework and structure…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismThe noble Baroness puts the plight of those with autism extremely well. Who could not feel sympathy for those with special needs and autistic sensibilities, with the distress and…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Adult Social Care ComplaintsNo one should be under any pressure, financial or otherwise, to move unless they are absolutely determined to. I emphasise that anyone who has a complaint should complain either…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Adult Social Care ComplaintsLast week, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman indicated that it had had around 100 Covid-related complaints. The department is closely monitoring the situation,…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismMy Lords, I would like to pay tribute to the work of the learning disability and autism advisory group for its social care task force. Its recommendations have informed the…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismMy Lords, the role of any carer is one that we should applaud and pay tribute to, for they are often the overlooked supporters of those with learning difficulties and autism. The…05 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: People with Learning Difficulties and AutismMy Lords, the noble Baroness puts it extremely well, and it is an area we are deeply concerned about. We have commissioned Public Health England to carry out an analysis of the…05 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, NHSE&I is currently engaged with stakeholders, including people with lived experience, to develop better information for patients and to understand whether procedures…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, the department is very clear that the blanket use of DNACPR and DNR is unacceptable. An agreement to a DNACPR is an individual decision and should involve the person…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, it is completely unacceptable for any group of people to have blanket DNACPR provisions apply to them. The adult social care winter plan published on 18 September…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesThe noble Baroness is entirely right. The Covid epidemic has shone a spotlight on the awful arrangements around end of life at a time when contagious disease presents a threat to…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, I completely agree with the noble Baroness’s sentiments—so does the department and so do the Government. We have noted what happened during the Covid epidemic. The CQC…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesThe department is aware of the Queen’s Nursing Institute report on training and, although the majority of responses were positive, it raised questions about the training of, in…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesThe noble Baroness makes a fair point. Of course, someone who walks healthy from a hospital need not have such a notice left on their clinical records. I will admit that I do not…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, the benefits of living wills are enormous, both for those entering the last stages of their life and for their loved ones. It is something that we are keen to encourage.…01 Oct 2020