Publications
Browse IPC’s library of specialist free-to-download publications in health and social care that reflect our work and consultancy expertise in thought leadership.
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Testing a Market Position Statement
Date: June 2014
Type: Guidance
This guidance document offers a checklist against which to test the requirements of a market position statement.
Using the Market Position Statement to help structure the care market
Date: June 2014
Type: Guidance
This briefing paper was produced following the `Developing Care Markets for Quality and Choice` programme. It explores how market facilitation activities can be effectively implemented.
Intervening in the Care Market
Date: June 2014
Type: Guidance
This briefing paper was produced following the `Developing Care Markets for Quality and Choice` programme. It explores how a local authority might intervene to ensure a diverse and sustainable care market.
The basics of market facilitation
Date: June 2014
Type: Guidance
This briefing paper was produced following the `Developing Care Markets for Quality and Choice` (DCMQC) programme. It outlines the basics of market facilitation and the context in which a local authority might develop a market position statement (MPS).
Developing a Market Position Statement
Date: May 2014
Type: Guidance
This briefing paper was produced following the `Developing Care Markets for Quality and Choice` (DCMQC) programme. It outlines what a market position statement (MPS) is and how to develop one.
Developing a Market Position Statement: A Commissioner's Toolkit
Date: March 2014
Type:
IPC was asked by the Social Services Improvement Agency (`SSIA`) to produce guidance for commissioners of adult and children`s social care in Wales on how to develop a market position statement.
Local area impact assessment of retirement living and assisted living developments
Date: March 2014
Type: Report
McCarthy and Stone commissioned the Institute of Public Care at Oxford Brookes University to update and develop an earlier review with a local area economic impact assessment of Retirement Living and Assisted Living Extra Care developments across England, Wales and…
The stability of the care market and market oversight in England
Date: February 2014
Type: Report
The Institute of Public Care (IPC) was asked by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to produce a report analysing the main factors affecting stability in the adult care market and the relationship to the forthcoming market oversight regime.
Think integration, think workforce
Date: December 2013
Type: Report
This report was prepared by the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI) with support from IPC. It was commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) and supports policy ambitions for improved integrated health and social care services in England.
Review of Team around the Family arrangements in Swansea
Date: December 2013
Type: Report
Team around the Family arrangements were established in Swansea, supported by the local Children and Young People`s Partnership and Council, the Welsh Government and the European Social Fund (ESF) and the interested parties agreed to undertake an independent review of…
Transitional and longer-term implications of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill 2013
Date: October 2013
Type: Report
This report explores the key implementation issues that the Welsh Government, local authorities and the NHS may need to consider in particular as they look to work together to make the aspirations of the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Bill…
