Category Archives: mental health
Third care home run by a company at the centre of allegations of abuse against vulnerable is to close
Arden Vale becomes third Castlebeck care home to close
A third care home run by a company at the centre of allegations of abuse against vulnerable patients is to close, it has been announced.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said Castlebeck had agreed to close Arden Vale, in Meriden, near Coventry, by next Thursday.
Mental health service users and personal health budgets
What Personal Health Budgets mean to mental health service users
By William Smith
It is hard to keep up with all the proposed changes to our NHS system. The piloting of personal budgets in the NHS began in 2009. This scheme begun under the old Labour government and is now supported by the coalition in their health white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’.
A recently published report shows that mental health service users in England are sceptical that these ‘personal budgets’ will improve their care. Many do not know what personal budgets are or how they would fit into similar funding schemes within the social care system.
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.
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