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Help older people get out more, say south west residents
Loneliness is one of the biggest issues facing older people in the south west of Sheffield, according to residents who attended a special meeting on Thursday evening.
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Members of the Sheffield Irish Association enjoying a tea danceSubmitted by: Gael Stigant
Support for older people was the topic of debate chosen by locals for the Meet the Cabinet event at the South West Community Assembly meeting in Banner Cross Methodist Church.
During the meeting, local resident Eric Bentley raised concerns that old people are too scared to go out and then get the bus home late in the evening.
He said: “Where I go ballroom dancing, I know a lot of people who have become single after losing their partner and are then too frightened to go out and get the bus at 10pm, so they’re now not going to the dance.”
New era of five-yearly doctor checks starts
New era of five-yearly doctor checks starts
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt: “Doctors will get a chance to address deficiencies”
Regular checks on doctors’ skills will start from December, heralding the biggest shake-up in medical regulation for more than 150 years.
The UK’s 220,000 doctors will have annual appraisals, with a decision taken every five years on whether they are fit to continue working.
But it will be April 2016 before the vast majority of the first round of checks have been done.
The health secretary said it was about addressing “deficiencies” in skills.
Jeremy Hunt said that if doctors failed to satisfy the standards of the General Medical Council (GMC) they would be prevented from practising.
But he said the new system was about identifying where there were “gaps” in knowledge or skills and giving doctors a “chance to put those issues right”.
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