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Choose Well this bank holiday
NHS Norfolk and Waveney is urging everyone to “Choose Well” and plan ahead whenever possible for their medical care over the forthcoming bank holiday weekend.
Anyone who has medication on prescription is advised to make sure they order it early so they have enough medicine. Anyone who knows they will need an appointment to see their GP should ensure they book it in good time.
Ian Small, of the prescribing and medicines management team at NHS Norfolk and Waveney, said: “We want everyone to have an enjoyable Bank Holiday weekend, and so we advise anyone needing medical care to follow the Choose Well message. Selecting the right service for your needs may reduce the time you wait for appropriate treatment.
Carer sets up at-home service for elderly people
A CARER who says she struggled to find adequate support for her mother-in-law has set up a service to provide at-home care for elderly people.
- by Karen Dent, The Journal
- Aug 22 2012
Diane Chandler aims to create 50 jobs after taking on the franchise for Home Instead Senior Care, covering an area from Darlington down into Northallerton.
Two months into the business, she has five staff and 15 in training, and is confident of growing the head count of carers.
“We’ve had a lot of response initially – we should be able to create 50 jobs easily,” she said.
What next for the independent living fund?
The closure must be matched by a clear strategy detailing how devolving responsibility to local government would work
In the last days of the parliamentary term, amid the usual flurry of policy documents and statements, almost unnoticed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) issued a slim consultation document on the future of the independent living fund (ILF).
The writing has been on the wall for the ILF for some time. In June 2010 it announced it was closing to new applications for the rest of the financial year because of insufficient funding. In December of the same year the government confirmed the fund would be permanently closed to new users and funding for existing users would be maintained until the end of the current parliament in 2015.
