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Pilot scheme designed to improve hospital experience of dementia patients and their carers
Foundation aims to improve hospital experience of dementia patients with ‘Buddie’ scheme
Date of article: 25-Apr-13
Article By: Laura McCardle, News Editor
An initiative designed to improve the hospital experience of dementia patients, their families and carers is to be piloted in an Essex hospital.
The Mickey Payne Memorial Foundation and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) hope to implement the ‘Dementia Buddie Scheme’ by the start of June.
The project will see volunteers befriend people with dementia during hospital stays when their family, friends or carers are not available. Caroline Dearson, founder of the Mickey Payne Memorial Foundation, came up with the idea when she was sat in hospital with her father who had vascular dementia.
£5.5m DOH fund to improve hospice facilities across the East of England
Norfolk Hospice gets go-ahead after Government cash boost for care
ANDREW PAPWORTH Thursday, April 11, 2013
9:33 AM
A new hospice designed to meet Norfolk’s growing need for end-of-life care has today been given the green light thanks to a £510,000 government grant.
The money, part of a £5.5m Department of Health fund to improve hospice facilities across the East of England, means The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House can now confirm it will go ahead with its long-awaited multi-million pound facility near the A148 at Hillington.
Richard Shaw, chief executive of the charity, said the new site is needed to meet the county’s ever-increasing demand for palliative care amid warnings that many people are not getting the care they need.
NHS 111 helpline put on hold after safety warnings
Half of NHS 111 lines yet to be launched after ‘national roll-out’ falls flat
The planned roll-out of the NHS 111 non-emergency line across the entire country today has been aborted amid concerns it is wasting emergency services’ time and putting patients at risk.
By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent
7:30AM BST 01 Apr 2013
Easter Monday was initially meant to mark the national launch of the telephone service, which is replacing NHS Direct, but half of all 111 lines are still inactive.
Just one local service, in the North of Tyne and Tees area, will be opened today, joining 22 which are already running as pilots, but a further 23 are not yet operational.
Doctors claimed health chiefs had been forced to backtrack on plans to roll out the service after repeated warnings that the system was inefficient and could compromise patient safety.
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