Category Archives: Featured Article

Care sector ‘at risk despite promises of more money’

December 9, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, health, ukcuts
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent

Vital care services for older and disabled people in England remain at risk – despite government attempts to protect the sector, care leaders say.

Last month, George Osborne announced plans he said would lead to an above-inflation rise in care budgets.

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GPs should urge patients ‘to go online’

December 8, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, health, internet
By Hugh Pym Health editor

GP practice should get 10% of patients to go digital by 2017.

GPs should actively encourage patients to go online for booking appointments and ordering repeat prescriptions, according to a review of digital services in the NHS in England.

Baroness Martha Lane Fox, former internet entrepreneur and government adviser, wants the NHS to push forward with an IT revolution.

Her recommendations include ensuring every NHS building provides free wi-fi.

She says every GP practice should get 10% of patients to go digital by 2017.

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86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’

December 6, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, Older care, Social care, ukcuts

As squeeze on social care funding intensifies

86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’ as squeeze on social care funding intensifies

Michael Knowles, Reporter / Thursday 3 December 2015 / News

An elderly man says he has been driven to a nervous breakdown because of failures in social care.

Ralph Wakeling, 86, has spent the last ten years caring for his disabled wife with support from carers.

But the father of three says carers do not turn up when they are supposed to, forcing him to get his wife out of bed, wash her, and lift her into a stair lift so she can get to the toilet.

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