Category Archives: Carers
Carers across Cumbria are to benefit from an annual £500,000 fund
Cash fund will provide vital support to Cumbria’s carers
By Phil Coleman
Last updated at 12:00, Monday, 25 July 2011
Hundreds of carers across Cumbria are to benefit from an annual £500,000 fund which will be spent on giving them vital support.
GPs have agreed to invest the cash annually over the next four years in funding support services for the county’s army of carers, whose efforts save the NHS millions.
The announcement has come two years after health chiefs across the country were criticised for hanging on to cash the Government gave to primary care trusts to help ease the load of carers.
Just how the £1.75m Cumbrian carers fund will be spent will be decided by each of the county’s six GP-led locality boards.
They plan to target the support on carers whose work helps to reduce a person’s reliance on hospital and other NHS health services.
The boards will work closely with the county’s five carers’ organisations in Carlisle, Whitehaven, Kendal, Barrow, and Penrith.
Dawn Kenyon, of Carlisle Carers Association, said: “This is extremely good news for carers.
“It will mean GPs are able to refer carers for the help they need – for things such as benefits advice, therapy, and much needed breaks from their role as carers.
I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS
JLS singer Oritse Williams: ‘I became a popstar to help find a cure for MS to save my mother’
Last updated at 2:39 AM on 24th July 2011
Most young men trying to carve out a career in the music industry have fame and the wealth that accompanies it as an incentive to push them to the top of the charts.
But for Oritse Williams, founding member of platinum-selling boyband JLS, the motivation was his mother’s battle with the incurable illness multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Its lights, camera, action for Lifeline staff
Published by lpriest for Progress Housing Group in Housing and also in Communities, Health
Monday 25th July 2011 – 9:26am
Lights, camera, action! This week Lifeline staff became TV stars as a film crew rolled into town to shoot a film about the Lifeline emergency response service.
Staff from the Lifeline team starred alongside professional actors, highlighting how the 24/7 Lifeline service works and how it can help people live safely and independently in their own homes.
The Lifeline service is an alarm unit and personal pendant, which is linked through the individual’s telephone line to a 24/7 control centre. When an alarm is triggered it instantly connects the individual to an experienced control centre operator, who will take the most appropriate action to help, which could be to contact the emergency services, a family member or neighbour or to send a mobile warden to assist.
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