Category Archives: Carers

Improving dementia care

September 17, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

NHS Memory Services receive £10 million injection

Press Release from the Department of Health

£10 million is being made available to kick start a transformation in the way people with dementia are treated by the NHS, Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow announced today. The extra funding for memory services will help to identify people with dementia earlier and treat them more effectively.

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Disabled and carers plan to fight closure of Centre for Independent Living

September 16, 2011   Carers, disability, ukcuts
 SOS Westminster
 

Published: 16 September 2011
by JOSH LOEB

CARERS have been forced to set up a do-it-yourself-style day centre for some of Westminster’s most vulnerable people.
 
The Centre for Independent Living in Paddington, which offers activities for deaf and wheelchair-bound residents, will close at the end of this month as part of a shake-up of social care.People with disabilities who have been fighting the closure now plan to club together to stage regular art and cookery classes at another venue nearby.

Di Yeo, chair of campaign group SOS Westminster, called the impending closure “a great tragedy”.

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GMC says more support needed for overseas doctors in UK

September 16, 2011   Carers, health

16 September 2011 Last updated at 01:16

“Being a doctor in the UK requires much more that just clinical expertise. It is also important to have highly developed communications skills, knowledge of UK medical ethics and culture, and an understanding of how the NHS works.

By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News

 Culture, medical standards and language are all issues
 
The General Medical Council says some overseas doctors come to the NHS with “little or no preparation” for working in the UK.

It says those trained under different cultural and professional standards need more support.

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