Camille Oung
@camille-oung.bsky.social
Fellow @NuffieldTrust - mostly musing about social care & health policy
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Today the CQC has published the State of Care report – its yearly assessment of health and care services: www.cqc.org.uk/publications... The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) are once again identified as an area requiring urgent action
The state of health care and adult social care in England 2024/25 - Care Quality Commission
This report sets out our assessment of the state of health care and adult social care in England in 2024/25.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Today the CQC has published the State of Care report – its yearly assessment of health and care services: www.cqc.org.uk/publications... The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) are once again identified as an area requiring urgent action
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Nuffield Trust #socialcare expert @camille-oung.bsky.social has responded to today's State of Care report from the CQC.
Read the full statement 👇
Read the full statement 👇
Mounting concerns over feasibility of plans to shift care closer to home
Camille Oung responds to the Care Quality Commission's State of Care report.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Nuffield Trust #socialcare expert @camille-oung.bsky.social has responded to today's State of Care report from the CQC.
Read the full statement 👇
Read the full statement 👇
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Our #socialcare expert @natashacurry.bsky.social has responded to today's news about the £500m funding for care worker pay. 💷
Read the full statement here: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...
Read the full statement here: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...
September 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Our #socialcare expert @natashacurry.bsky.social has responded to today's news about the £500m funding for care worker pay. 💷
Read the full statement here: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...
Read the full statement here: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nu...
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🆕 As we launch our new report on NHS continuing health care, read this Q&A with Sharon Allen, CEO of @arthurrankhospice.bsky.social
Sharon has personal and professional experience of CHC, which she calls an extremely adversarial system.
Read the article 👇
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Sharon has personal and professional experience of CHC, which she calls an extremely adversarial system.
Read the article 👇
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
NHS continuing health care: a Q&A with Sharon Allen
As we today publish our new research on NHS continuing health care (CHC), in this Q&A we speak to Sharon Allen OBE, who is the Chief Executive of the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity. Sharon has experience...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🆕 As we launch our new report on NHS continuing health care, read this Q&A with Sharon Allen, CEO of @arthurrankhospice.bsky.social
Sharon has personal and professional experience of CHC, which she calls an extremely adversarial system.
Read the article 👇
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
Sharon has personal and professional experience of CHC, which she calls an extremely adversarial system.
Read the article 👇
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/nh...
Bit more of a personal blog today - some reflections on being awarded an @nihrsscr.bsky.social Career Development Award and how it has helped me ground my social care research around local people and practice, and build great networks along the way:
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BLOG: Reflections on my Career Development Award - NIHR SSCR
Developing expertise and building networks Camille Oung, Nuffield Trust, (SSCR Career Development Award Alumni) My (right) visit to Nightingale Hammerson care home to shadow staff with my colleague Cy...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Bit more of a personal blog today - some reflections on being awarded an @nihrsscr.bsky.social Career Development Award and how it has helped me ground my social care research around local people and practice, and build great networks along the way:
sscr.nihr.ac.uk/blog-reflect...
sscr.nihr.ac.uk/blog-reflect...
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Building on the newly released report 'Building resilience in adult social care: Learning the lessons from other countries’ experiences of Covid-19', Natasha Curry from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk has written this insightful blog: nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/lo...
@adelinacohe.bsky.social
@adelinacohe.bsky.social
Looking back to move forward: what can other countries’ Covid experiences tell us about building a resilient care system?
As the Hallett Inquiry turns its focus to social care this week, this blog draws on a set of international case studies being published by Nuffield Trust and LSE's Care Policy and Evaluation Centre wh...
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July 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Building on the newly released report 'Building resilience in adult social care: Learning the lessons from other countries’ experiences of Covid-19', Natasha Curry from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk has written this insightful blog: nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/lo...
@adelinacohe.bsky.social
@adelinacohe.bsky.social
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📰As the Covid-19 Inquiry's public hearings into social care begin, there is much to be learnt from other countries and how their care systems coped during the pandemic. My blog shares some of the insights from research by @nuffieldtrust.org.uk & @cpeclse.bsky.social published today 👇
Looking back to move forward: what can other countries’ Covid experiences tell us about building a resilient care system?
As the Hallett Inquiry turns its focus to social care this week, this blog draws on a set of interational case beinng published by Nuffield Trust and LSE's Care Policy and Evaluation Centre which expl...
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June 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📰As the Covid-19 Inquiry's public hearings into social care begin, there is much to be learnt from other countries and how their care systems coped during the pandemic. My blog shares some of the insights from research by @nuffieldtrust.org.uk & @cpeclse.bsky.social published today 👇
As the #CovidInquiry module on social care begins today, we publish our our learning from France, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands on what features can support a resilient care system for those who draw on it and those who work in it - in times of crisis and beyond ⬇️
🆕 As the #CovidInquiry turns its focus to #socialcare, and with the sector in desperate need of reform, Nuffield Trust & @cpeclse.bsky.social have published international case studies on how other countries managed the social care challenges of the pandemic.
Building resilience in adult social care: Learning the lessons from other countries’ experiences of Covid-19
As the ongoing Covid Inquiry turns its focus to the social care sector, and with social care in desperate need of long-promised reform, Nuffield Trust and LSE's Care Policy and Evaluation Centre are…
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June 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As the #CovidInquiry module on social care begins today, we publish our our learning from France, Japan, Denmark and the Netherlands on what features can support a resilient care system for those who draw on it and those who work in it - in times of crisis and beyond ⬇️
A very interesting - and concerning - new scrolling story from my colleagues Malina Bodea and @daviesmiranda1.bsky.social on the factors which affect women's health ⬇️
🆕 The latest analysis from #QualityWatch, a Nuffield Trust and @healthfoundation.bsky.social programme, explores a range of factors affecting working-age women’s health.
Scroll through the story here 👇 #healthinequalities
Scroll through the story here 👇 #healthinequalities
Silence, sexism and stigma: The state of working-age women’s health in England
Women spend more years of their life living in poor health than men, including through their working years. This QualityWatch data story shows how the burden of disease affects working-age women and m...
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June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A very interesting - and concerning - new scrolling story from my colleagues Malina Bodea and @daviesmiranda1.bsky.social on the factors which affect women's health ⬇️
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Since 2011, working-age women have fared worse than men on many diseases.
Poor health also contributes to economic inactivity and addressing this is a government priority. But greater focus is needed on women who spend more of their working years living in ill health.
Poor health also contributes to economic inactivity and addressing this is a government priority. But greater focus is needed on women who spend more of their working years living in ill health.
June 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Since 2011, working-age women have fared worse than men on many diseases.
Poor health also contributes to economic inactivity and addressing this is a government priority. But greater focus is needed on women who spend more of their working years living in ill health.
Poor health also contributes to economic inactivity and addressing this is a government priority. But greater focus is needed on women who spend more of their working years living in ill health.
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📢 Calling all ICS strategic staff at #NHSConfedExpo working on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people 🏘️
Take part in our survey for the CQC and inform this year's State of Care report 📋
Survey link 👇
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Deadline 25 June
Take part in our survey for the CQC and inform this year's State of Care report 📋
Survey link 👇
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Deadline 25 June
June 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📢 Calling all ICS strategic staff at #NHSConfedExpo working on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people 🏘️
Take part in our survey for the CQC and inform this year's State of Care report 📋
Survey link 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Deadline 25 June
Take part in our survey for the CQC and inform this year's State of Care report 📋
Survey link 👇
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Deadline 25 June
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Are you working at an ICS in a strategic role focused on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people?
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
Please fill out this form
For CQC's 2025 State of Care report, an annual assessment of health care and social care in England
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June 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Are you working at an ICS in a strategic role focused on community-based care, inequalities, or support for older people?
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
Take part in the survey we are carrying out on behalf of the CQC and help inform this year's State of Care report.
Deadline 25 June.
Access our 10-15 minute survey, here 👇
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Déjà vu for social care? Reflections on today’s Immigration White Paper (a thread) 🧵
May 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Déjà vu for social care? Reflections on today’s Immigration White Paper (a thread) 🧵
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NEW: Ending care worker recruitment from abroad is hugely risky for a #socialcare sector facing a vacancies void, and reforms to make care jobs more attractive for UK workers won’t kick in for years.
Read the response from our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social here: buff.ly/3mLe7p9
Read the response from our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social here: buff.ly/3mLe7p9
Nuffield Trust response to the government's immigration white paper
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May 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
NEW: Ending care worker recruitment from abroad is hugely risky for a #socialcare sector facing a vacancies void, and reforms to make care jobs more attractive for UK workers won’t kick in for years.
Read the response from our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social here: buff.ly/3mLe7p9
Read the response from our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social here: buff.ly/3mLe7p9
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NEW: @commonshealth.bsky.social has published its report on the cost of inaction on #socialcare. It shows inaction on reform is not sustainable and has severe consequences.
Our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social has responded. Read her thoughts here: buff.ly/tqVnbZC
Our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social has responded. Read her thoughts here: buff.ly/tqVnbZC
May 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
NEW: @commonshealth.bsky.social has published its report on the cost of inaction on #socialcare. It shows inaction on reform is not sustainable and has severe consequences.
Our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social has responded. Read her thoughts here: buff.ly/tqVnbZC
Our social care expert @natashacurry.bsky.social has responded. Read her thoughts here: buff.ly/tqVnbZC
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New paper out today reveals scale of inequalities in social care!
💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents
👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector
📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care
Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...
💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents
👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector
📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care
Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New paper out today reveals scale of inequalities in social care!
💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents
👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector
📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care
Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...
💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents
👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector
📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care
Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...
The terms of reference for the Casey Review have been launched today, with a focus on building consensus over tangible recommendations to improve adult social care over the next ten years. A few takes from me and @cglobont.bsky.social .social & @natashacurry.bsky.social:
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Independent commission into adult social care: terms of reference
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May 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The terms of reference for the Casey Review have been launched today, with a focus on building consensus over tangible recommendations to improve adult social care over the next ten years. A few takes from me and @cglobont.bsky.social .social & @natashacurry.bsky.social:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Almost 1 million people in the UK were estimated to be living with dementia in 2024, but just under 500k have a formal diagnosis. At 62%, women over 65 account for the majority of diagnoses.
Figures on dementia diagnoses and care are tracked as part of our #QualityWatch programme: buff.ly/aemz7Yd
Figures on dementia diagnoses and care are tracked as part of our #QualityWatch programme: buff.ly/aemz7Yd
April 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Almost 1 million people in the UK were estimated to be living with dementia in 2024, but just under 500k have a formal diagnosis. At 62%, women over 65 account for the majority of diagnoses.
Figures on dementia diagnoses and care are tracked as part of our #QualityWatch programme: buff.ly/aemz7Yd
Figures on dementia diagnoses and care are tracked as part of our #QualityWatch programme: buff.ly/aemz7Yd
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Great indicator by NT's Malina showing, for example, big, and poorly understood, disparities in % of men and women aged 65+ with a dementia diagnosis. Report by @camille-oung.bsky.social, Natasha and I looks at how social care must improve to support growing + diverse population living with dementia
Almost 1 million people in the UK were estimated to be living with dementia in 2024, but just under 500k have a formal diagnosis. At 62%, women over 65 account for the majority of diagnoses.
Figures on dementia diagnoses and care are tracked as part of our #QualityWatch programme: buff.ly/aemz7Yd
Figures on dementia diagnoses and care are tracked as part of our #QualityWatch programme: buff.ly/aemz7Yd
April 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Great indicator by NT's Malina showing, for example, big, and poorly understood, disparities in % of men and women aged 65+ with a dementia diagnosis. Report by @camille-oung.bsky.social, Natasha and I looks at how social care must improve to support growing + diverse population living with dementia
Always a fun day when you're in the Mayor of London's social media posts (even if very blurry) 🍀
Today thousands of Londoners and visitors came together to celebrate St Patrick’s Day and Irish culture in London. I was honoured to join the front of the parade.
The Irish community is a vital part of London, and today’s celebrations showcase its rich culture and lasting contributions to our city.
The Irish community is a vital part of London, and today’s celebrations showcase its rich culture and lasting contributions to our city.
March 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Always a fun day when you're in the Mayor of London's social media posts (even if very blurry) 🍀
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Why do ethnic minorities in the UK live in households that spend so much more income on housing than White British adults? Turns out the answer is complex.
Our latest report, released today, dives into the root causes. Let’s explore the key insights👇🏾
Our latest report, released today, dives into the root causes. Let’s explore the key insights👇🏾
February 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Why do ethnic minorities in the UK live in households that spend so much more income on housing than White British adults? Turns out the answer is complex.
Our latest report, released today, dives into the root causes. Let’s explore the key insights👇🏾
Our latest report, released today, dives into the root causes. Let’s explore the key insights👇🏾
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Back in 2008 I worked on the introduction of Continuing Health Care (with your Mum, @ollybenson.uk). It was supposed to ensure that the care people needed to live as well as possible was funded appropriately. It wasn't supposed to be used to deny care. I was proud of what we did then. I'm not now.
Not often shocked by health care news, but this is.... I return to the words of my last blog - people need support to live well, too
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A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all | Frances Ryan
Rosy is unable to move, breathe or eat unassisted. Yet for hours a day she is being left completely alone, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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January 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Back in 2008 I worked on the introduction of Continuing Health Care (with your Mum, @ollybenson.uk). It was supposed to ensure that the care people needed to live as well as possible was funded appropriately. It wasn't supposed to be used to deny care. I was proud of what we did then. I'm not now.
Excellent panel to get us started at our #hospitaltohome event @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social reflecting on whether learning from other countries such as Denmark, who have been more successful at shifting care into the community, can be applied in England
January 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Excellent panel to get us started at our #hospitaltohome event @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social reflecting on whether learning from other countries such as Denmark, who have been more successful at shifting care into the community, can be applied in England
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My latest post on what to expect for the NHS this winter
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TLDR: looks likely we'll avoid a repeat of disastrous 2022/23 winter, but only by luck 1/6
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TLDR: looks likely we'll avoid a repeat of disastrous 2022/23 winter, but only by luck 1/6
What is winter looking like for the NHS?
Worrying signs in A&E for October but we are likely to avoid a repeat of the 2022 nightmare winter
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November 27, 2024 at 7:21 AM
My latest post on what to expect for the NHS this winter
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TLDR: looks likely we'll avoid a repeat of disastrous 2022/23 winter, but only by luck 1/6
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TLDR: looks likely we'll avoid a repeat of disastrous 2022/23 winter, but only by luck 1/6
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2 in 3 people finishing treatment with NHS Talking Therapies showed improvement & nearly half ‘reliably recovered’…but only 37% of referrals completed treatment.
Strong analysis and great dataviz by @stutibagri.bsky.social #QualityWatch
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
Strong analysis and great dataviz by @stutibagri.bsky.social #QualityWatch
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
Does the NHS Talking Therapies service have an attrition problem?
The NHS Talking Therapies service offers psychological therapy for adults in England suffering from depression and anxiety-based conditions. With investment in the service growing, how is it performin...
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November 25, 2024 at 7:25 PM
2 in 3 people finishing treatment with NHS Talking Therapies showed improvement & nearly half ‘reliably recovered’…but only 37% of referrals completed treatment.
Strong analysis and great dataviz by @stutibagri.bsky.social #QualityWatch
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social
Strong analysis and great dataviz by @stutibagri.bsky.social #QualityWatch
@nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @healthfoundation.bsky.social