Author Archives: Maureen
To really care we must focus on the outcomes
A policy introduced under a Labour administration now has far-reaching – and expensive – consequences for the Scottish government that will last long into the future.
17 November 2011
Plans to integrate health and social care across Scotland are being pushed ahead despite the fears of those providing the services that costs will spiral while quality may suffer. Maureen Ferrier reports
The Scottish government has its own directorate for health and social care integration whose purpose is “to ensure that where care is needed it is of high quality and is provided in a timely, efficient and effective way as close to home or a homely setting as possible”.
People with dementia missing out on direct payments
The government wants everyone receiving social care to be offered a personal budget by 2013
Published 17 November 2011
More than three quarters of people with dementia who receive social care support at home are not using direct payments or other personal budgets.
This is despite government plans to roll them out to all people using social care services. As it launches its new report ‘Getting personal? Making personal budgets work for people with dementia’, Alzheimer’s Society is calling for the personal budget system to be adapted to meet the specific needs of people with dementia
Sunderland charity chief’s ‘grave concern’ over care cost plans
The Government wants more people to manage their own personal budget and by 2013
Published on Tuesday 15 November 2011 10:40
CHARITY bosses have criticised proposals which could see pensioners paying hundreds of pounds more per week for social care.
It is feared up to 3,000 elderly Wearsiders could be hit by the changes being considered by Sunderland City Council.
The proposed shake-up to the contributions policy would remove a maximum cap of £108.70.
Instead, people would be individually assessed as to what they can afford to pay.
