Category Archives: health
NHS Future Forum are to listen to patients, service users and professionals
NHS Future Forum to carry out new work on key health issues
The Government has asked the NHS Future Forum to continue a new phase of conversations with patients, service users and professionals following its listening exercise on the proposals to modernise the NHS.
Social care shake up for thousands in Norfolk
Social care shake up for thousands in Norfolk
by DAN GRIMMER, Public affairs correspondent
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
2:04 PM
Thousands of elderly and disabled people are set for a huge social care shake-up within weeks, after councillors agreed a radical shift in how Norfolk’s vulnerable are looked after.
Members of Norfolk County Council’s controlling cabinet agreed yesterday to shift the authority away from running day centres.
The council will instead hand personal budgets to people who use those services so they can choose what to spend the money on.
NHS chiefs ‘abuse system by delaying treatment’
29 July 2011 Last updated at 10:46
Patients lives are being used to save money
NHS managers are abusing the system by making patients wait longer for treatment, the health secretary says.
Andrew Lansley was speaking out after a competition watchdog criticised the way non-emergency operations, such as knee and hip replacements, were being run.
The Co-operation and Competition Panel said some primary care trusts had introduced minimum waiting times to save money and level-down performance.
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