Tom Potter Thursday, September 25, 2014
8:45 AM
Hospital patients in Ipswich and east Suffolk could soon be cared for in their homes by the Red Cross after being discharged.
Plans will be discussed later this month to send Red Cross staff to the homes of patients in the three days following a hospital stay.
The move is designed to provide post discharge support to patients for 72 hours and is one of several direct services to be contracted to the third sector in an effort to curb unnecessarily long hospital stays.
African-Caribbean and South Asian UK communities are at greater risk of developing dementia than the indigenous white population, but there is a lack of specialist care
As her mother swaps childhood stories with her peers at a social club, Amina Begum sees another side to her 65-year-old parent. Her mother, Jahanara, is at ease and animated instead of being confused and frustrated.
As a carer you may be worried about getting the flu because it would affect your ability to care for the person you’re looking after. You may be able to get a flu jab because of this, or because of your age or your own health.
Government policy is that the flu vaccine should be offered to the following groups:
