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Cornwall MP values the work done by unpaid carers
MP learns more about voluntary workers
8:50am Saturday 7th January 2012 in Cornwall
Truro and Falmouth MP Sarah Newton has been given a insight into how voluntary sector organisations are working with Cornwall Council and the NHS to develop better support for people.
She joined Stephen Gilbert, MP for St Austell and Newquay, at a Carers’ Support Group at Age UK Cornwall’s Newquay Day Centre.
Work is needed on the future of telehealth care
More work needed on telehealth
Telehealth has benefits for patients with long-term conditions but despite industry excitement there are still areas of concern, argues Jeremy Wyatt
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Jeremy Wyatt
- Guardian Professional,
The Whole System Demonstrators showed that, “if used correctly”, telehealth reduced death rates by 45%, NHS resource usage by 15-20% and tariff costs by 8%. With these striking results and the launch of the industry/NHS funded 3 Million Lives campaign, telehealth is steaming out of its backwater into the clinical mainstream.
Boris Johnson is worried about the effect of the reforms to DLA
Boris Johnson turns his fire on the Government’s reforms to Disability Living Allowance
Living with a disability is expensive – for the disabled and the taxpayer
One of the Coalition government’s less well-covered reforms is that of the disability living allowance (DLA). The DLA is not an out-of-work benefit and it is not means tested: it’s payable to everyone with a disability, to help with the many extra financial costs that disabled people have to live with. Unfortunately, it’s also very expensive: since the early 1990s, the number of people claiming the allowance has tripled, to nearly 2.2 million. The Government believes too many people are claiming the benefit, so it is introducing stricter new tests, designed to save £1.4 billion by 2015.
