Category Archives: Carers
Working together on cancer support
Have a voice in how cancer services are improved
PATIENTS, staff, families and carers are working together on an initiative to help improve cancer services in Bedfordshire.
The Bedford Cancer Action Partnership has been set up by Bedford Hospital as part of its commitment to improving patient experience by encouraging patients and carers to get involved in shaping the future of their local health services.
Kirklees disability care changes that no-one knew about –
axe falls without users and carers being consulted
- by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
- Jun 1 2012
A FATHER has questioned Kirklees Council’s silence over a decision to axe funding for Mencap as a day care provider for people with disabilities.
David Mills Daniel says he and wife Jenny were not consulted before Kirklees Council transferred responsibility for the care of his son from Mencap to a new provider.
And he says it will cause unnecessary disruption for those who depend of the service – the people with disabilities themselves and their carers.
His son Edmund, 33, has Down’s Syndrome and severe learning difficulties. He has attended the Waverley Hall centre, Waverley Road, for five years.
Anger at ‘scandalous’ rise in charges for mum’s home help
A son who looks after his elderly mum says her care bill is set to triple to more than £18,000 under changes being introduced by the city council.
Widow Vera Hunt, 87, is disabled following a stroke four years ago. She is double incontinent with dementia and requires two carers to attend to her four times a day.
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Her son, Martin, 55, gave up his job and house to help care for Vera at the pensioner’s home in Wintersdale Road, near Uppingham Road, Leicester, but says her life savings will now be drained to pay for increased charges.
He is angry and deeply upset that every penny of savings put away by his parents, who had paid their taxes all their life, would have to be spent on his mum’s elderly care.
“She contributes more than £6,000 a year and because I’m looking after her she isn’t a burden to the local authority,” said Martin.
“I need carers to come in and help hoist her out of bed and change her incontinent pads, but apart from that I’m doing everything else.
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