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New laws announced to end age discrimination in hospitals
11:30am Sunday 24th June 2012 in News
Sutton and Cheam MP Paul Burstow has announced new laws aimed at ending age discrimination in hospitals.
Mr Burstow wants to ensure elderly people no longer face age discrimination when they need medical treatment.
The ban will mean older patients who feel they are receiving poor or undignified care due to their age, could take legal action from October.
Doctors will continue to make the final decision on treatment, but it will be illegal for the elderly to be denied treatment on age grounds alone.
Platform for disabled anglers opens at Rackerhayes Ponds
Disabled and their carers enabled to ‘go fishing.’
A platform which will enable disabled anglers to use a fishing site in Devon has opened.
The £16,000 project at Rackerhayes Ponds, in Newton Abbot, has been funded by the Environment Agency from the selling of rod licences.
The work has included building a 10m (33ft) long wooden platform, access ramp and cutting into the bank to create a footpath.
The six ponds at the site are used by the Newton Abbot Fishing Association.
Care home whistleblowers increasing
More than 4,300 whistleblowers have come forward in the past 16 months to complain about the treatment of elderly and disabled people in care.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) – which regulates care homes and hospitals in England – said some of the complaints concerned care home residents being physically assaulted.
Complaints rose from 22 a month in December 2010 to 556 in March 2012.
The CQC said whistleblowers included relatives and staff.
