Monthly Archives: October 2011

Millions to Go on Health Personal Budgets

October 5, 2011   Carers
The concept is widely used in social services to enable people to employ their own carers and respite services.

 

October 5 – Millions of pounds of NHS cash could be allocated to personal budgets for people with long-term health needs from next year, it was announced yesterday.

Some two billion pounds that is spent annually on continuing health care will be available for these budgets, health secretary Andrew Lansley said.

Currently more than 1,300 people deploy the budgets for needs which include end of life care, long term conditions, mental health and the programme known as Continuing Health Care.

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Nottinghamshire county council to roll out telecare service

October 5, 2011   Carers, disability, Older care

Carers will receive alerts triggered by telecare users to a portable pager.

Local authority signs deal to deliver services to older and disabled people across the county

Nottinghamshire county council is to roll out telecare technology to provide support for older and disabled people in a deal arranged within a Buying Solutions framework.

The technology will link a range of sensors in a person’s home to a 24 hour monitoring centre. The sensors will include:

• Home safety sensors for smoke, carbon monoxide, flood and heat alarms.

• Property exit sensors, which can alert the monitoring centre if a person with dementia wanders away from their home at an inappropriate time.

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Do you want to learn how to use the internet?

October 5, 2011   Carers, disability, internet, Norfolk
Free IT lessons in Norwich
Please note Baseline is going to be running two Go-On IT Session’s every Friday 1st session from 3-4pm and second session from 4-5pm the programe will be running from Friday the 7th October through to early March 2012. The sessions are aimed at beginners and cover all the basics from turning on a computer and learning how to use a mouse to getting online and setting up an email address.
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