Author Archives: wendy
Changes to care services in Wiltshire leave folks “absolutely gutted.”
New Wiltshire home care service rolled out
From Monday, wardens are being replaced by a 24 hour call-out system, in a joint project between Wiltshire Council and the NHS.
Four care providers have been chosen to run the system, which will affect 3,000 vulnerable people.
The Conservative-run council said it was providing a better service.
New patient–focused mental health services in West Norfolk has been completed
NHS mental health services for King’s Lynn upgraded to plan
Edited by Jane Hill editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
A building project to create more efficient and patient–focused mental health services in West Norfolk has been completed. The Fermoy Unit, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Chatterton, and Thurlow House, both on the Chatterton site, Goodwin’s Road, are part of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
One of the improvements includes a new telephone system dedicated to the mental health service. The new telephone number is: 01553 609933. The changes are part of a project called ‘Building Success in the West’, which is designed to improve the delivery of NHS care.On paper I’m registered partially sighted and disabled, but I’d rather not be defined by that
Alys Wall explains the affects of her visual disability
- by Alys Wall, Western Mail
- Sep 5 2011
The Big Lottery Fund last week launched its £12m Bright New Futures programme to work with young disabled people and families in Wales. Partially-sighted 17-year-old Alys Wall, who helped launch that programme, writes frankly about her life and her hopes and fears for the future
WHEN you first meet me or pass me in the street, you wouldn’t think there’s anything different about me to the next girl that you meet.
I appear to be the same as everyone else – there’s nothing to hint that I have a disability which has changed both mine and my family’s life to the extreme.
