Category Archives: Carers
Review into ‘end-of-life’ care
26 November 2012 Last updated at 18:18
The Liverpool Care Pathway has been designed to alleviate unnecessary suffering at the end of life
The Liverpool Care Pathway has come under intense scrutiny recently, with claims that some hospitals are abusing its use to cut costs.
Medics say the pathway helps patients avoid unnecessary interventions.
Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb said he would appoint an independent chair to report back in the new year.
Mr Lamb said: “Care for the dying is an emotive issue and is never an easy subject to discuss.
ME isn’t 'all in the mind’, but it’s still a mystery
As medical adviser to the ME Association and an ME sufferer, Dr Charles Shepherd has spent the past two decades vigorously fighting the dismissive attitude still common among the medical profession. Here, he talks about the latest research into the disorder
By Caroline Lavender
7:30AM GMT 26 Nov 2012
It was in the late Seventies that Charles Shepherd became ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME as it is better known. It was an era, he recalls, when the condition was still dismissed as “hysterical nonsense” by most clinicians. Working as a young doctor at Cirencester Hospital, he had contracted a severe case of chickenpox from a patient with shingles. “I’d been perfectly fit and healthy. The infection had resolved but I felt mentally and physically knackered and kept having to take more and more time off,” he recalls.
We cannot understand why the Government will not strengthen rights of carers when we are so valued
Monday 26 November 2012
Carers Need Help
We have been informed that very few, if any, of the proposed amendments to the Self Directed Support Bill in relation to unpaid carers have been moved for Stage 3, with the exception of at least one amendment submitted by Scottish Labour which relates to Section 16 of the Bill.
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