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Patients could be at risk from unregulated ‘cheap’ healthcare workers
Patients could be at risk from unregulated ‘cheap’ healthcare workers
Patients could be left at risk from a growing number of unqualified and unregulated healthcare workers, it has been claimed.
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 7:00AM BST 20 Apr 2011
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There are at least 150,000 healthcare assistants working in hospitals and care homes, often carrying out important roles such as washing and feeding patients, and more are being employed as a cheap alternative to more experienced clinical staff.
But unlike doctors, nurses and midwives, there are no training requirements for healthcare assistants and support staff and no watchdog to discipline those that break rules, meaning that those who are sacked can simply move to another employer.
Cash for new carers’ group
CARERS in Congresbury look set to benefit from some respite as plans for a new group advance.
At a village parish council meeting last week members agreed to give £720 to Crossroads, which offers support, advice and information to carers throughout North Somerset.
The funds will allow carers in the village to meet monthly and can pay for them to take part in activities of their choice.
Norwich City stars back stroke awareness campaign
Norwich City stars back stroke awareness campaign
by DAN GRIMMER Monday, April 18, 2011
11:59 AM
, pictured with Stephen Fry at Carrow Road last year
Norwich City stars past and present have been doing their bit to raise awareness of strokes, inspired by a couple who have tirelessly campaigned for early diagnosis.
Former Aviva worker Colin Bell, 58, from Thorpe End, spent five months at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after a stroke in October 2005 and had to re-learn how to walk and talk.
