Category Archives: Carers
500 jobs to go in mental health services – Norfolk and Suffolk – Where is the Care?
Suffolk and Norfolk mental health shake-up concerns
Aidan Thomas, the chief executive of the trust, hopes change will improve the serviceConcern has been raised over the pace of a major shake-up of mental health care in Suffolk and Norfolk.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is looking to cut up to 500 staff as it tries to make savings of £40m.
The Trust told the Norfolk and Suffolk scrutiny panel, meeting to oversee plans, that the concerns were being addressed.
Panel chairman Alan Murray said members broadly backed the need for a reorganisation.
The new strategy includes addressing people at an earlier stage of their illness to try and avoid the need for care beds to be used.
Will they listen to the nurses and take action?
Stirling University to lead UK’s largest patient care study
Nurses will be questioned on how they perceive the standard of care on wardsThe University of Stirling is to lead the UK’s largest ever study into patient experiences and the delivery of frontline health care.
About 6000 patients and almost 1000 nurses and health professionals will take part in the Improving Patient Experience of Care (IPEC) project.
The two year study will also involve academics from Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian universities.
The researchers hope the results can be used to improve patient care.
IPEC’s principal researcher is Prof Brian Williams, Director of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Research Unit.
Improving care
Prof Williams said: “There have been a number of major initiatives in recent years designed to help frontline healthcare staff improve the care experience.
Personal Independence Payment could change blue badge eligibility
Blue badge ‘life line’ could be taken away
February 11, 2013
A mum of two autistic children has condemned plans by the Government which will make it tougher for her to gain a disabled blue badge.
Under new Government welfare reforms the parking concession permits will be linked to a new personal independence payment (PIP) which will replace disability living allowance (DLA) in April.
This has a much narrower criteria for eligibility which will make it increasing difficult for people with autism and their carers to get a blue badge, even those assessed as having mobility needs.
Jo-Anna Dem, 45, of Carsdale Close, Coley Park, fears losing the badge which she claims has been a lifeline in caring for her autistic sons Adama, aged 10, and eight-year-old Gabriel.
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