This is now brought into sharp relief by the apparent inability of the coalition partners to agree on Dilnot’s proposals. After the report launch, we heard very positive and supportive responses from both Norman Lamb MP, the deputy prime minister’s political adviser, and the care minister, Lib Dem Paul Burstow. But this was not echoed by either the chancellor of the exchequer or the prime minister.
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Where is the family when you are a Carer?
My sisters don’t want to know us any more
by Coleen Nolan, Daily Mirror 22/07/2011
Dear Coleen,
I’m one of 10 children and I don’t see or hear from any of my siblings, including my four sisters.
I care for my disabled children as a single parent after my partner passed away.
I can’t understand why my sisters behave the way they do. One lives nearby and in the past I’ve looked after her kids and helped her decorate. I just wish that they’d show me some consideration.
More delays on health and social care proposals!
Health and social care need equality
Dilnot proposals for social care divide the government, causing more delay to necessary reform, argues Peter Beresford
The proposals by Andrew Dilnot’s commission were described as ‘clever’, but now the coalition partners cannot agree on them. One of the words most often used about the proposals of the Dilnot commission was “clever”. As ever, social care, denuded of finance and political priority, was in search of some smart solution that would gloss over the essential reality of political life – that you get what you pay for.
Bedsores: the treatable killer
Bedsores: the treatable killer
Bedsores are caused in the main by neglectful nursing care for the bed-ridden. Why are we allowing it to happen?
With proper mattresses and regular turning, there is no need for bedsores to develop Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY.COM
By Max Pemberton
7:30AM BST 11 Jul 2011
The nurse pulled back the covers and I recoiled instinctively. It wasn’t so much the sight of the raw flesh that made me feel ill as the smell.
“It must have been like this for months,” said the nurse. “How can they claim to be caring for this poor woman when they leave her to develop sores like this?”
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