Category Archives: Carers
Cameron pledges to stamp out unacceptable care in hospitals
Untrained health “assistants” will not be able to work in hospitals under plans to improve standards in the NHS, ministers will announce.
7:30AM GMT 04 Jan 2013
More than 50,000 low-paid and unregulated assistants will have to receive formal care training.
A set of “minimum standards” will be unveiled in the coming weeks. Assistants found to be not caring properly for patients are likely to be banned from working in hospitals.
The findings of an official review into the scandal at the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, where substandard care led to hundreds of patients dying, will land on ministers’ desks soon.
The report is expected to make wide-ranging recommendations which will effectively mean that NHS workers dealing with patients should be regulated.
Warwickshire's dementia portal brings vital information together online
A county council has developed an online portal to make it simpler for people with dementia and their carers to navigate their way through the system
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Christine Lewington
- Guardian Professional,
In social care commissioning many of us have been haunted by the graphs of doom; the forecasted reductions in spending set against the rising number of older people with complex conditions, a great number of whom will have dementia.
In Warwickshire alone there are 7,100 people living with dementia – a figure that is expected to rise by 34% by 2021.
We believe there can be a positive future for people with dementia, but only if we shape it now and help people to help themselves and family members earlier on.
‘Target winter fuel benefit to pay for elderly care’
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Social care is in need of reform, many experts say
Winter fuel payments should be means-tested to help pay for care of the elderly, a former minister says.A report by Lib Dem MP Paul Burstow and the Centre Forum think-tank, said targeting the allowance would help pay for a fairer social care system.
The report said it could fund most of the £1.7bn cost of implementing reforms of elderly care in England proposed by the independent Dilnot Commission.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said a funding model was yet to be decided.
The Dilnot Commission, which was set up by the government, recommended that the cap on the amount individuals have to pay towards their social care be set at £35,000 over a lifetime.
The commission argued that such a move would protect people from catastrophic care costs that result in them having to sell their homes.
As things stand, older people in England have to contribute to their care costs if they have savings of more than around £23,000.
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