Category Archives: Carers
Carers unaware of respite support
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Family carers are risking their health because they are unaware of the respite services they are entitled to, according to a report from a charity with a centre in Southampton.
A review of research by disability charity Vitalise found that people supporting a family member or friend don’t see themselves as carers as they are unpaid and as a result miss out on respite support.
Disgust after Lancashire woman’s care funding is refused
Disgust after Knuzden woman’s care funding is refused
12:21pm Wednesday 11th April 2012 in Blackburn
THE family of a woman paralysed from the neck down are appealing against a decision by health bosses to refuse funding for her continuing care.
The children and husband of Jean Hannon, who was left paralysed following an operation last August, said they were ‘appalled and disgusted’ by a decision by NHS East Lancashire not to grant the family funding for her continued care.
And now a health scrutiny boss has vowed to highlight the family’s plight.
Jean’s husband Terry, 72, who is registered disabled and relies on a mobility scooter and stairlift, said he is left to care for his wife and do the cooking, cleaning, washing and ironing despite his own health issues.
The couple, of Knuzden Brook, Knuzden, had to get rid of their furniture to make way for a medical bed, hoist and wheel-chair in their living room.
Son Terry, 52, of Kingsley Close, Blackburn, said: “My mum was discharged from the Royal Blackburn Hospital a week ago after eight months in hospital. We had a meeting prior to that with the PCT and they told us she wasn’t eligible for funding towards her care.
Telecare: what’s happened to the whole system demonstrators?
The patient from hell asks when the lessons from the WSD will be shared and what the delay means for the future of telecare
I am in despair about the future of telecare. You will remember that a trial, called the whole system demonstrator, covering 6000 long-term patients in Kent, Newham and Cornwall, has been chuntering along for about three years. In June last year, a Kings Fund conference announced relatively upbeat preliminary findings for the WSD. The full report was supposed to be imminent. But autumn and winter came and went, and still the report did not appear. We were told that it was just going through the necessary “peer review” process.
At the beginning of March, the Kings Fund held a two-day international congress on telehealth and telecare. Ah, thought I, naively, this is when the WSD report will finally be launched in all its glory, and will give a massive boost to the swift roll-out of telecare across the country.
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