Author Archives: wendy

Crisis in social care system leaves disabled people without support

May 15, 2014   Carers, disability, Featured Article, Social care
By: Richard Kramer, Deputy Chief Executive, Sense
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2014 – 10:26 GMT   

For a long time now our social care system has been in crisis. Funding has been cut back to the bare bone and local councils are struggling to find the money to provide even the most basic care.

Chronic underfunding has left many deafblind and disabled people struggling to get the support they need.

Calls to Sense from deafblind people increased by 40 per cent last year, as they struggle to access the care they need at the same time as battling with the impact of the recent benefit changes. We are concerned that these problems will continue to get worse.

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Exmouth pensioners told mobility scooters could be confiscated in “health and safety gone mad” move

May 13, 2014   Carers, disability, Featured Article

Mr Bayliss at the area inside the building where residents used to store their mobility scooters.

By Exeter Express and Echo

Disabled Exmouth pensioners have accused East District Council of being “over to top and excessive” after they were told their mobility scooters will be confiscated if they dare to leave them in corridors outside their council flats.

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Mental-health patients driven hundreds of miles for treatment

May 11, 2014   Carers, Featured Article, mental health, Norfolk

Shortage of beds in constituencies of two health ministers is blamed on cuts in East Anglian hospital budgets

Charlie Cooper Author Biography

HEALTH REPORTER

A crisis in mental health care has been declared by NHS staff in East Anglia, across a region covering the constituencies of two government health ministers.

Nurses say that it has become common for there to be no beds available for mental health patients in all of Norfolk and Suffolk, leading to severely ill patients being driven hundreds of miles to hospitals as far as Manchester.

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