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GURPREET’S WINNING DESIGN AIDS CHARITY
The finger painting skills of an eight-year-old Bushey girl will be gracing thousands of greetings cards this Christmas
3:37pm Tuesday 22nd November 2011
The finger painting skills of an eight-year-old Bushey girl will be gracing thousands of greetings cards this Christmas. Profoundly disabled Gurpreet Juttla was a winner in a national Mencap competition and now the cards are being sold through the John Lewis Partnership to raise money for the charity.
Gurpreet is a pupil at Meadow Wood School in Coldharbour Lane which supports children who have a physical and neurological impairment. She also attends the Watford Mencap Children’s Centre at the Lemarie Centre in North Watford.
She has been a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London since she was born and has undergone a series of life saving operations including open heart surgery.
Basic home care help ‘breaching human rights’
23 November 2011 Last updated at 08:17
One of the common complaints was a lack of help the elderly were given eating and drinking
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Basic care for the elderly in their own homes in England is so bad it breaches human rights at times, an inquiry says.
The home care review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission highlighted cases of physical abuse, theft, neglect and disregard for privacy and dignity.
It said on many occasions support for tasks such as washing and dressing was “dehumanising” and left people “stripped of self-worth”.
The findings have added weight to calls for a complete overhaul of the system.
Campaigners described the situation as “shameful”, while councils, which are in charge of providing such services, said without urgent reform services would just get worse.
Patients ‘struggle to get emergency mental health care’
People with urgent mental health problems are struggling to get emergency treatment in England and Wales, campaigners say.
A review by Mind highlighted a range of difficulties patients face getting help from community crisis teams and hospitals.
Its report said responses were all too often slow or not available at all.
