Category Archives: ukcuts

Care sector ‘at risk despite promises of more money’

December 9, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, health, ukcuts
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent

Vital care services for older and disabled people in England remain at risk – despite government attempts to protect the sector, care leaders say.

Last month, George Osborne announced plans he said would lead to an above-inflation rise in care budgets.

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86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’

December 6, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, Older care, Social care, ukcuts

As squeeze on social care funding intensifies

86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’ as squeeze on social care funding intensifies

Michael Knowles, Reporter / Thursday 3 December 2015 / News

An elderly man says he has been driven to a nervous breakdown because of failures in social care.

Ralph Wakeling, 86, has spent the last ten years caring for his disabled wife with support from carers.

But the father of three says carers do not turn up when they are supposed to, forcing him to get his wife out of bed, wash her, and lift her into a stair lift so she can get to the toilet.

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Mental health cuts ‘put lives at risk’

November 12, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, health, mental health, ukcuts

Cuts to adult mental health services in England have started damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report suggests.

The review by the King’s Fund think tank found there was now “widespread evidence of poor quality care”.

Researchers linked this to the use of unproven, cheaper services in a bid to balance the books.

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