A NEW watchdog is being launched to monitor health and social care in Staffordshire.

February 5, 2013 Carers, health

Staffordshire Residents Urged to Make New Year’s Resolution as Watchdog Prepares to Launch

A NEW watchdog is being launched to monitor health and social care in Staffordshire.

Healthwatch Staffordshire will investigate the views of patients and social care service users from April as part of national changes.

The new organisation will have statutory powers to enter providers’ premises to see at first hand how services are being delivered. Healthwatch Staffordshire will be able to recommend improvements and providers will have to respond to those recommendations.

Hotel boss raising money for MS charity in memory of uncle

February 4, 2013 Carers, charities, Multiple Sclerosis

Hotel boss raising money for MS charity in memory of uncle

jpco/31/1/13 Katie Savage Manager of Langshott Manor promoting Afternoon tea (Pic by Jon Rigby)

Published on Monday 4 February 2013 08:03

A hotel manager has dedicated a year of fund raisers to a charity in memory of her uncle.

Katie Savage, 32, was appointed manager of Langshott Manor, in Ladbroke Road, Horley, last September and has taken the new year as an opportunity to make the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Society the hotel’s ‘charity of the year’.

This means every fund raising event that takes place at the hotel in 2013 will raise money for that charity.

Katie said the cause was very close to her heart. “My uncle suffered from the disease from the age of 28 and sadly passed away at the age of 44 leaving behind two young sons.”