Assessing service pressures in a pandemic

SocCon reporting guidance for social care: assessing service pressures in a pandemic : Department of Health – Publications.

During a pandemic, both adult and children’s social care services are likely to experience some capacity pressures. This may be due to the need for additional short-term emergency care for those people not usually in need of social care services and/or absent social care workersand staff etc.

 

This reporting process is also intended to provide a legacy system for monitoring and reporting service capacity issues from social care services in any emergency – not just a pandemic.

UK Health (Nov 2009)