Category Archives: Cancer

Caring is not like fishing

March 9, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Arthritis, autism, Cancer, charities, disability

Maybe we all know someone who is a carer or has been one, but have we ever stopped to see what this really means.
How does the old lady caring for her husband, manage to do her shopping, and cope with the endless nights of interrupted sleep?
What about the young mum with a darling child but who was born with a disability, have you ever invited the child round to play with your child?

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Start2care, a programme for new carers

March 8, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Cancer, disability, health, mental health, Multiple Sclerosis, Norfolk, Older care

A short film to introduce start2care, a programme for new carers.

By Age UK Norfolk

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NHS reforms will return health service to 1930s

March 7, 2011   Arthritis, Cancer, dementia, disability, health, mental health, Multiple Sclerosis, Older care

NHS reforms will return health service to 1930s

The government’s NHS reforms will return medical care to the standards of the 1930s and 40s, a leading doctor has warned.

By Laura Roberts 8:00AM GMT 07 Mar 2011
Dr Mark Porter, chairman of the BMA’s hospital consultant committee, said proposed changes would create an “increasingly tattered safety net” for people suffering from complex illnesses such as heart failure, diabetes or obesity.

He claimed that for patients in some parts of the country, care would return to “what we thought we had left behind when we founded the NHS in 1948”.

Private healthcare firms could “cherry pick” patients with the simplest conditions to treat while local hospitals could face closure if they are forced to compete with independent, profit-driven healthcare providers, he said.

This would leave the NHS as a “provider of last resort” for patients denied treatment by private practises because their conditions are too expensive to deal with.

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