Pledge to make Norfolk businesses more dementia friendly
A project to make Norfolk the first dementia friendly county in the country has received a boost with the support from a number of major employers.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
6:16 PM
A business breakfast was held in Norwich today, which was organised by the Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance, to explore ways of making local businesses more supportive towards people with dementia and their carers.
The meeting included representatives from Aviva, the East of England Co-op, Kettle Chips, Bernard Matthews, First Eastern Counties buses and was also attended by Norman Lamb, North Norfolk MP and government care minister.
Extra funding for mental health services in Norfolk
Vulnerable patients are set to get extra support after more than £500,000 was invested to hire more mental health staff at two Norfolk hospitals.
Adam Gretton Health correspondent adam.gretton@archant.co.uk
Monday, September 29, 2014
2:40 PM
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) will use the investment from Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) to place mental health staff in the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn.
Health chiefs welcomed the extra funding, which will help recruit four mental health nurses for the psychiatric liaison team and an additional consultant psychiatrist this winter at the N&N.
More than 100 elderly a week are having properties seized to pay for care home fees
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Between 30,000-40,000 thought to lose homes this way every year
- Coalition promised a cap on care costs by 2016, but this will only apply to bills of £72,000 or more
- Those with assets of more than £23,250 are expected to pay their own way
- Critics say the system denies families their inheritances and punishes those who have worked hard, saved and paid mortgages
More than 100 homes a week are being seized from elderly people by councils to pay for their care home fees.
Families have been forced to hand over properties because local authorities are refusing to pay for the care.
