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Proposed changes to mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk
Proposed Trust Service Strategy
Trust Service Strategy – how you can have your say
Clinicians in Norfolk and Suffolk have been proposing changes to mental health services for the next four years. The proposals were sparked by budget challenges facing the whole of the NHS – NSFT is facing a 20% reduction in its spend in four years’ time compared with today.
But rather than just make cuts, our clinicians are seeing this as an opportunity to redesign services which are fit for the future and offer real alternatives to hospital care and the care we currently provide. Everything has to fit within our new budgets, but of more importance is the need to make sure all services provide good and safe outcomes for service users and their family carers.
Protests: Carers and disabled affected by Benefit change
16 March 2013 Last updated at 18:32
Housing benefit change protests held
Protests have taken place across the country, including Manchester.Thousands have been demonstrating in a series of cities against government plans to cut housing benefit for those considered to have too much space.
Protests against the plan – labelled the “bedroom tax” by Labour – have been held in 52 towns and cities, including Manchester and London.
Organisers said between 12,000 and 13,000 people turned out.
The government’s welfare changes are due to come in in April and are expected to affect 660,000 people.
Those deemed to have a spare room in their council or housing association home will have their housing benefit claims reduced by £40-£80.
The protests’ national organiser, Éoin Clarke, said: “This is a cruel policy that primarily hits single parents, and the adult disabled.
“Even children deemed disabled but not ‘severely’ so, are affected. Carers, the terminally-ill, battered wives and husbands are all affected.
Husband who cares for his wife with MS faces misery because they have a spare bedroom
‘I’d rather go to jail than pay bedroom tax’ – husband carer’s desperation over controversial welfare cut
PETER PAPWORTH, who looks after his disabled wife, says he’d rather be behind bars than pay the Con-Dem’s bedroom tax.
A HUSBAND who cares for his disabled wife is among the first people to be hit by the Con-Dem Government’s controversial bedroom tax.
Peter Papworth received a demand from Highland Council this week but vows he will go to jail rather than pay.
The 38-year-old lives with wife Amanda, who has multiple sclerosis, in a two-bedroom house in Inverness.
But Highland Council say the couple must fork out £9.96 a week from next month as they have a spare room.
He is now demanding a meeting with local Lib Dem MP Danny Alexander – a leading member of the Coalition Government behind the tax.
Peter said: “My stomach is knotted with anger. To some people it might only be £40 a month but we simply cannot afford it. This will have a devastating effect on us.”
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