ESN's new report on quality of long-term care

27 January 2021

Following a year of work, the European Social Network (ESN) has published its latest report on long-term care. The report Putting Quality First – Contracting for Long-Term Care examines how public procurement and quality assurance...

Putting Quality First: Contracting for Long-Term Care

This report assesses the role of public procurement, contracting and commissioning in ensuring quality long-term care. It is based on a literature and practice review, the responses to a questionnaire from ESN members as well as...

SisVAT-COVID19: Early Detection and Monitoring System for care homes

2020 Spain Members only

The “SisVAT-COVID19” system is an early detection and monitoring system, which allows to obtain real-time relevant information from 240 care homes located in the region of Asturias...

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Use of multiple systems to monitor contracts and services in long-term care

2020 Spain Members only

Madrid city council plans and designs services in-house and monitors the quality of services contracted out to external providers. Long-term care has been a particularly fast...

Ageing & care Service Quality & Management

Outcome-Based Commissioning of Long-Term Care

2020 United Kingdom Members only

When procuring services from providers, Swindon Borough Council defers to the methodology of Outcome-based Commissioning, developed by Mark Friedman (Friedman, M., 2009). Swindon...

Ageing & care Service Quality & Management

European Semester Recommendations for the 2021 - Accessible to People with Visual Impairments

No place like home: shifting the paradigm in long-term care for older people

25 November 2020

In Europe, the demand for long-term care for older people is growing and is set to increase exponentially in the coming years. Traditionally, meeting this demand has differed across Europe depending on cultural norms, whereby in...

Europe’s social care leaders share practice on quality in ageing and care

25 November 2020

On 12 and 13 November, the European Social Network (ESN) held its first entirely virtual annual seminar on how public social services can best contract long-term care (LTC) services and guarantee high quality support for older...

Investing in Social Services, Investing in Europe

This report brings together the analysis conducted by the members of ESN’s Reference Group on the European Semester, which in 2020 represented 17 EU countries. The report illustrates the social situation according to public social...

ESN seminar: Promoting high quality long-term care

28 October 2020

The theme for the European Social Network (ESN)’s annual seminar on 12 and 13 November is promoting quality in long-term care (LTC) making best use of procuring and contracting possibilities. The sessions taking place throughout...
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