Category Archives: Carers

The Switchover Help Scheme can help you make the switch to digital TV.

June 8, 2011   Carers, Uncategorized

The Switchover Help Scheme can help you make the switch to digital TV.

We can help you convert your TV to digital if you:

  • are aged 75 or over; or
  • get or could get Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance,
    Constant Attendance Allowance or mobility supplement; or
  • have lived in a care home for six months or more; or
  • are registered blind or partially sighted..

Check now to see if you could be eligible

http://www.helpscheme.co.uk/en/home

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Miliband and Cameron back cross-party talks on care

June 8, 2011   Carers, disability

Miliband and Cameron back cross-party talks on care

Ed Miliband says the scenes of abuse filmed by Panorama at the Winterbourne View care home “shame our country”

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he wants cross-party talks to resolve the problem of funding adult social care.

Mr Miliband said he wanted parties to work together so people could “grow old with dignity”.

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UK doctors begin pioneering asthma treatment

June 8, 2011   asthma, Carers

8 June 2011 Last updated at 00:39

UK doctors begin pioneering asthma treatment 

By Nick Ravenscroft BBC North of England correspondent

Asthma sufferer using inhaler About 5.4 million people in the UK have asthma – around 250,000 of which have severe asthma

Doctors in Manchester and Glasgow have begun treating NHS asthma patients with a pioneering treatment described as “melting away” muscle in the airways.

Instead of using drugs such as steroids, a wire probe is inserted into the lungs and then heats the tissue.

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