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Fewer hospital beds would mean £1bn more for dementia care, say MPs
Fewer hospital beds would mean £1bn more for dementia care, say MPs
One in 10 NHS hospital beds should be removed in order to free up an extra £1billion to help dementia sufferers, leading politicians say.
7:00AM BST 12 Jul 2011
MPs and peers say that up to a quarter of beds are taken up with people who have degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s, even though it is costly for taxpayers as well as traumatic for patients.
Long hospital waits ‘on the increase’
It is unfair to leave people waiting so long if they are in pain.
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Under the NHS Constitution, patients have a right to be seen in 18 weeks.
But there are currently 236,155 on the waiting list who have waited longer than that – a rise of 8.5% in a year, according to official data. Nearly half have waited more than six months.
Southern Cross to hand over care homes to landlords
Residents have been reassured in Peterborough that they will not have to move, lets hope it will be the same for every resident across the country,.
News from The Peterborough Evening Telegraph, www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk
By Stephen Briggs
Published on Tuesday 12 July 2011 09:25
VULNERABLE residents in care homes in the Peterborough area have been reassured after operator Southern Cross warned it was set to shut down.
Southern Cross Healthcare Group, which operates the 59-bed Astoria Park, in Park Crescent, Peterborough, has announced plans to hand over all of its 752 care homes to landlords or, where appropriate, new operators because of financial difficulties.
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