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Special day for parents and carers of children with additional support needs

Published on Saturday 13 October 2012 06:00

‘THE WHOLE Child’ is the title of a major conference currently being organised for parents and carers of children with additional support needs.

The event will take place in the Carnoustie Golf Hotel on Wednesday, November 7.

‘there are times I could just run out the door’

As told to Joan McFadden Susan Love, a nurse, lives in Paisley with her husband Willie and 19-year-old son Owen, who has cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus. Here, she tells Owen about the love – and the guilt – she feels for him

You’ve always been a bit of a surprise to me, right from the moment I found out I was 26 weeks pregnant at the age of 19.

My first reaction was ‘My mum is going to kill me’ and she wasn’t jumping for joy when I told her. I was in a steady relationship and training to be a nurse but everyone in my class had been warned that if anything stopped us sitting exams we’d have to start from the beginning. There had been an outbreak of sickness in my ward so when I started feeling ill my GP thought I’d picked it up from my patients. I was still suffering from terrible tiredness two weeks later so I went back and saw a locum. I quite like a bit of drama but I wasn’t prepared in the slightest when the nurse came bounding through the door and said: ‘You’re pregnant!’

Scotland: Patients get new right to treatment within 12 weeks

30 September 2012 Last updated at 09:12

Patients get new right to treatment within 12 weeks

GP generic. Pic by Adam Gault/Science photo Library An independent advice service has also been set up for NHS patients across Scotland

Patients have a legal right to receive treatment within a maximum 12 weeks of diagnosis under new laws.

It means those who need planned inpatient or day case treatment will be covered by a treatment time guarantee.

They will have a legal right to receive it within a maximum of 12 weeks from when they are diagnosed and agree to the treatment.

The guarantee is one of the rights in the Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities.