Monthly Archives: March 2013
Scheme helps patients home from Hospital
Home from Hospital scheme helps ease patients back into everyday life
10:00am Sunday 3rd March 2013 in News
Kempton Cannon and Home from Hospital co-ordinator Sally Hinds at his Addingham bungalowFor pensioner Kempton Cannon, returning to his empty house after a spell in hospital was set to be a daunting prospect.
The 90-year-old former painter and decorator, of Addingham, was anxious about how he would cope back home living alone.
But now, as a ground-breaking project expands across the whole of Bradford and Airedale for the first time, a package of help and support is available to Mr Cannon and hundreds of patients like him.
Set up a year ago, Home from Hospital is an initiative designed to ease adults of all ages safely back into everyday life after discharge from hospital.
Carers in Nottinghamshire will get more support
£1.7m boost for Notts carers
AN extra £1.7m is being proposed to support carers in Nottinghamshire by the county council’s adult social care and health committee on Monday, 4th March.
Around £1m of the additional money from NHS Nottinghamshire County is planned to be spent on a range of support measures to improve the lives of carers in Newark and Sherwood, Mansfield and Ashfield, Gedling, Rushcliffe and Broxtowe.
A further £500,000 will be spent directly by the NHS on carers, including doubling the current funding of £300,000 on breaks to provide respite for those in a caring role.
Family unpaid carers have to fight for everything
Truth and lies about poverty, benefits and welfare
Abstract
A new churches’ report (published by by the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Church of Scotland, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church, through their Joint Public Issues Team) shows how evidence and statistics have been misused, misrepresented and manipulated to create untruths that stigmatise poor people, welfare recipients and those in receipt of benefits. Ekklesia has not been involved in the commissioning or production of this report, but as a thinktank working on welfare issues and advocating a major shift of public policy towards the needs, concerns and skills of marginalised people in society, we are pleased to endorse and publicise it.
