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Cash break for parents of disabled in Scotland
Families with severely disabled children could benefit from an extra £2 million to fund short breaks.
The money is in addition to £5 million already allocated over five years, the Scottish Government said.
Public health minister Shona Robison said: “Parents looking after children with complex or exceptional needs have exceptionally tough demands placed upon them. Severely disabled children can be entirely reliant on their parents for everything and families can be left utterly exhausted. Providing a short break – either for parents and their other children or for the whole family – can make a huge difference in sustaining families and keeping them going.”
Britain is bottom of Euro league table at diagnosing Alzheimer’s
Britain is bottom of Euro league table at diagnosing Alzheimer’s
Britons with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease take twice as long to be diagnosed as sufferers living in other European countries, research has found.
The UK has come bottom of a league table comparing dementia care in European countries, with an average time lag of two years and eight months between signs of Alzheimer’s disease being suspected by carers, and the medical diagnosis being made.
Delays were more than twice as long in Britain as in Italy and Germany, and nine months longer than in Poland.
Hospitals must adapt to new world, says NHS chief
25 February 2011 Last updated at 01:21
Hospitals must adapt to new world, says NHS chief
By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News
Private sector take-overs, mergers and more community-based care may be needed to ensure all hospitals survive the shake-up of the NHS, the head of the health service says.
Sir David Nicholson told the BBC the combination of reforms and squeeze on spending meant some hospitals would find the future “difficult”.
He said he did not expect any hospitals in England to close completely.
But said some would needed to adapt and change to remain competitive.
Sir David, who will become the chief executive of the NHS commissioning board when GP consortia are set up, admitted the health service was facing one of its toughest and most demanding periods ever.
The NHS budget is only getting annual rises of 0.1% above inflation for the next four years – the first time in its history that it has had such a period of small rises.
“It is a difficult settlement for the NHS, no doubt about it,” he said.
But he added it was partly off-set by the large rises the NHS has got over the past decade and should be seen in the context of the cuts elsewhere across government.
