Monthly Archives: September 2011

Unfortunately, social care service users have not got the ear of government

September 22, 2011   Carers, disability

There’s a deafening silence of service users in the social care funding consultation

Could it be that their views don’t chime with the government’s preferred way forward, says Peter Beresford

 

Unfortunately, social care service users have not got the ear of government, says Peter Beresford.
The government has scheduled a new white paper on social care for April next year. It will pull together key recent recommendations for the radical reform of social care funding, legislation and delivery systems. At a King’s Fund health thinktank conference on Tuesday, A New Future For Social Care?, Emily Thornberry MP, Labour’s shadow care spokesperson, made a plea to return to traditional parliamentary procedures. “In the past, we’d have had a green paper, then a public consultation, then a white paper,” she said. “Now we’re moving straight to a white paper.”
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RCN: NHS healthcare assistants’ training ‘unacceptable’

September 22, 2011   Carers, disability, hospital, Older care

22 September 2011 Last updated at 11:55

“This happens in some care homes and domiciliary care too.

 

 Healthcare assistants are employed to do basic tasks like feeding and washing patients
The NHS is too reliant on untrained healthcare assistants who are asked to pick up nursing skills as they go along, says the head of the Royal College of Nursing.

Peter Carter said healthcare assistants were employed to help nurses with basic tasks like washing and feeding, but ended up doing much more.

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Local authorities set to launch campaign to raise awareness of theft from older people

September 22, 2011   Carers, Older care, Scotland

“The particular focus for the ‘Tell Someone’ campaign is around older people who may be less able to protect themselves.

 

22/09/11

A campaign called ‘Tell Someone’ will be launched in Aberdeen next week [Monday 26 September] by the three Adult Protection Committee’s in Grampian to raise awareness of the financial harm of vulnerable older people in the North-east of Scotland. 

Mo Ramsay, Independent Convener of the Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Moray Adult Protection Committees will welcome delegates to the event being held at Aberdeen Football Club, Pittodrie and outline why financial harm was chosen for the campaign.

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