Author Archives: wendy
Carers do it for love not money
Most genuine carers would gladly give up the pittance paid to them in benefits to have a more normal and stress free life.
I THINK it is wise to have some experience of a subject before voicing opinions.
D Hewitt, of Newcastle, (Sentinel, April 7) obviously has none otherwise he or she would not have come out with such a narrow view on carers.
I however, do speak from experience. I have raised a child with Prader-Willi syndrome which is a very difficult and stressful condition to cope with.
I have a husband who has manic depressive illness and I have recently helped my aged mother nurse my lovely father, who was suffering with dementia, until his death.
Cameron ‘will listen’ to charity concerns over tax relief
Cameron ‘will listen’ to charity concerns over tax relief
David Cameron has said he will listen “very sympathetically” to concerns from charities about the impact of a planned cap on tax relief on donations.
Philanthropists have criticised plans to put an annual limit on tax reliefs, including for charitable donations, saying it will deter giving.
The PM said use of donations to cut tax bills must be curbed but the “right balance” could be struck.
Labour said the plan is “another nail in the coffin” of the Big Society.
Telecare: what’s happened to the whole system demonstrators?
The patient from hell asks when the lessons from the WSD will be shared and what the delay means for the future of telecare
I am in despair about the future of telecare. You will remember that a trial, called the whole system demonstrator, covering 6000 long-term patients in Kent, Newham and Cornwall, has been chuntering along for about three years. In June last year, a Kings Fund conference announced relatively upbeat preliminary findings for the WSD. The full report was supposed to be imminent. But autumn and winter came and went, and still the report did not appear. We were told that it was just going through the necessary “peer review” process.
At the beginning of March, the Kings Fund held a two-day international congress on telehealth and telecare. Ah, thought I, naively, this is when the WSD report will finally be launched in all its glory, and will give a massive boost to the swift roll-out of telecare across the country.
