Care & Healthcare
One million NHS days lost to social care
- Thursday, 16 May 2013
Responding to figures from Age UK about the number of NHS days lost to people waiting for social care Cllr Zoe Patrick, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Community Wellbeing Board, said:
“Sadly this research highlights the very real crisis we are facing in providing even the most basic care to the most vulnerable members of society.
“Councils and the NHS are getting better at working together to ensure elderly people aren’t kept in hospital beds longer than they need to be, but clearly more needs to be done. The current system promotes an inefficient use of taxpayers’ money but more worryingly it also reduces the quality of care people receive.
National Horror Service
- Thursday, 16 May 2013
A COUNCIL leader condemned NHS chiefs of a scandal-hit hospital after she was rushed to A&E with suspected tuberculosis (TB) before being dumped in a filthy side room - for EIGHT HOURS. Councillor June Griffiths, who is chairman of Bromsgrove District Council, was taken to Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Worcs., after coughing up blood at home.
She was taken by blue-lights to the A&E department after paramedics said she may have potentially fatal and highly contagious tuberculosis (TB).
National Award Scheme Launched
- Thursday, 16 May 2013
The Elderly Accommodation Council (EAC) National Housing awards for Older People 2013 are now in full swing
This year will be the fourth year that the awards have been held, and they aim to put residents in older peoples housing right at the centre of the assessment and award process.
Dementia Diagnosis To Be Overhauled
- Wednesday, 15 May 2013
One Year On from the Prime Minister’s Challenge
NHS England is to tackle “shockingly low” dementia diagnosis rates with plans that could see 160,000 people who are unknowingly living with the condition identified and treated, Jeremy Hunt announced today.
The plans, announced as the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia reached its first year, will aim to see two-thirds of people with dementia identified and given appropriate support by 2015, an increase from 39 per cent in 2010 and the current average of around 45 per cent.
People will see health and social care fully joined-up by 2018
- Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Coordination will see better care and support, fewer people falling through the cracks and a drop in distressing and expensive problems like patients needlessly stuck in hospitals.
An end to people passed around the health and social care system thanks to uncoordinated services will follow plans unveiled by Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb today.
New Rights For Family Carers ‘Cautiously Welcomed’ by Legal Expert
- Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Thousands of people who give up work to take care of ailing relatives are expected to receive new rights aimed at helping them following the Queen’s Speech today.
Legislation introduced as part of the Health and Social Care Bill could entitle those who give up work to look after relatives to ask their local council for financial support, professional assistance, or home adaptations.
The measure is designed to assist family members of those with dementia in particular, with figures revealing that the number of people caring for a relative with the condition is expected to rise by more than 150,000 by the year 2021.
Independent Age response to the Queen's Speech on social care
- Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Independent Age Chief Executive, Janet Morrison, said:
“We welcome the announcement of a Care and Support Bill in the Queen’s Speech as recognition that the government is now to act with purpose to reform social care.
“The details of the bill’s proposals to cap the amount that individuals pay towards their care will be keenly awaited as they will determine whether the bill does genuinely offer an end to the ‘catastrophic cost’ of social care that many ordinary families face.
Queen’s Speech has a hollow ring on the issues of pensions and care says NPC
- Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Britain’s biggest pensioners organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has claimed the words in today’s Queen’s Speech don’t match what the government intends to do in the areas of pensions and care.
The Queen announced that the the government would “reward people who work hard” and “support people who have saved for their retirement”, yet the plans on both pensions and care do neither.
Partnerships' comments on the Queens Speech
- Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Chris Horlick, Managing Director of Care at Partnership comments on the announcement in the Queen’s Speech that a Care and Support Bill will be introduced in the 2013/2014 Parliamentary session:
“This Bill will go a long way to help reform the adult social care sector in England and ensure that it is fit for the 21st century. The new legislation will also help the 57% of people in England who currently fund all or some of their care to access information and advice about their care needs.
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