Author Archives: wendy
Patients ‘not ill enough’ for care funding
The NHS should pay for those who have a complex medical condition and need nursing care
BBC Scotland has discovered further evidence that Scottish people are being wrongly charged care home costs.
The BBC has now learned of three people who are minimally conscious or in a vegetative state who have been told they are not “ill enough” to get their care costs paid by the NHS.
The three individuals all suffered serious strokes.
‘Bedroom tax’ test cases considered
Appeal judges will tomorrow consider several test cases brought by two law firms said to illustrate the “devastating” impact of the regulations up and down the country in social housing.
Shropshire council ‘failed’ to pay carer who quit job to support wife
Shropshire Council has failed to pay £60,000 to a man forced to quit his job to care for his wife, a government watchdog has said.
The payment was one of four recommendations made by the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO), which criticised the authority in May for failing to properly support the man.
Now it has released a further report recommending the cash is handed over.
The BBC has asked Shropshire Council for a response.
