Monthly Archives: November 2011
GPs take up slack for social care cuts
01 Nov 2011
Exclusive Dramatic cuts to social care budgets are placing practices under mounting pressure, with GPs forced to send patients to hospital because there is nowhere in the community for them to go, a Pulse investigation reveals.
Council-funded physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, elderly care and mental health services are among the victims of an average 4.7% cut in council social care budgets across England, with practices increasingly left to pick up the slack for axed services.
Key services for vulnerable patients – including legal aid, welfare services and public health campaigns – are also being hit.
This month saw Manchester City Council become the latest authority to announce millions of pounds of social care cuts, with services for the elderly, disabled, mentally ill and victims of domestic violence hit by a fresh round of cuts totalling £8.6m.
Why are there not enough nurses to Care?
‘Armchair experts must face the facts – staffing levels affect care’
1 November, 2011
Debates about care failings must include staffing levels, insists Jane Ball
The “crisis in nursing” debate is reaching a crescendo. The latest Care Quality Commission report on the quality of hospital care has sparked reaction and comment from every corner – the radio, on TV, the newspapers and even in my local shop. Everyone has a view about the trouble with nursing today.
Young carers upset and must not be forgotten
Sad farewell to Bracknell Young Carers’ Project
By Julie Spencer
November 01, 2011
There were tears and laughter at a farewell party to mark the closure of Bracknell’s Young Carers Project.
More than 70 children and their parents joined co-ordinator Angela Evans and her staff to wind up the scheme that has supported them for five years.
