Carers need a break – can you help?

July 18, 2014   Carers, Featured Article

A charity is asking upmarket hotels to offer a free night’s B&B to those in need of respite

Caring for a relative 24/7 can be stressful and exhausting.

In India, they call it “frugal innovation” – small changes, employing familiar ingredients, costing comparatively little, that can make a big difference in surprising ways. Local Solutions is a hugely impressive 40-year-old charity based in Merseyside that works in the north-west and north Wales. Frugal innovation runs through its veins.

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New look unveiled at Norfolk dementia unit following government investment

July 18, 2014   Carers, dementia, Featured Article, mental health, Norfolk

Adam Gretton Health correspondent adam.gretton@archant.co.uk

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Anger as users and carers ‘left out’ of planning for NHS learning disability scheme

July 16, 2014   Carers, Featured Article, learning difficulties

Activists and academics raise questions over NHS England project

By on July 16, 2014 in Adults

Learning disability activists and academics have accused NHS England of failing to involve people with experience of services and their families in the development of a new group tasked with cutting the use of inappropriate hospital placements.

Yesterday NHS England announced that it had appointed Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of charity leaders network ACEVO, to head a group dedicated to ‘co-commissioning’ solutions to cut inappropriate placements. The group will report its findings in October.

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