Category Archives: Carers
£10,000 charity boost from Harrogate store
A Harrogate superstore is showing a trolley load of support for the district’s growing number of unpaid carers.
Employees of Sainsbury’s store on Wetherby Road have forged close links with the Carers’ Resource – with many even becoming volunteers there – after the charity was adopted as its annual good cause for the second successive year.
And they marked partnership’s renewal by handing over £9,470 to the award-winning charity based on North Park Road – the proceeds of the store’s first year of fundraising.
Doctors to launch investigation into Liverpool Care Pathway
Doctors are to investigate whether the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, which is supposed to alleviate suffering, is actually being used to deliberately hasten death.
11:27AM BST 24 Oct 2012
Palliative care doctors are preparing to open an investigation in concerns that the Liverpool Care Pathway is being used to deliberately hasten the death of elderly and terminally-ill patients.
The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist palliative care units throughout the country, is going to carry out research to see if the LCP is operating as a “euthanasia pathway”.
MPs warned of £10bn social care cuts
MPs warned of £10bn social care cuts
24 October, 2012 | By Kaye Wiggins
Councils will cut £10bn from their social care budgets over this spending review period, MPs have been told.
The figure was revealed at a health select committee hearing on Tuesday by John Jackson, chair of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services’ resources network.
Mr Jackson told MPs that his figure raised serious concerns about the future of social care funding.
“Adult social care is the largest part of council budgets and they will have to look for savings from it”, he said, warning that the further council tax freeze announced this month would put more pressure on care budgets.
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