Tag Archives: carers

Technology firm helps people with learning difficulties

June 14, 2013   Carers, learning difficulties

Making life easier

by Trevor Sturgess
Holly Lodge, Hildenborough
Holly Lodge, Hildenborough
A hi-tech firm has helped adults with learning difficulties by providing specialist technology.

Icom, based in Aylesford, specialises in telecommunications, CCTV, security systems, cabling and data centre services.

It was asked to help equip Holly Lodge, a building with five self-contained flats in Hildenborough, with the latest assistive technology.

This included movement sensors, flood sensors, infra-red beams, water management kits and tele-healthcare connectivity.

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Chloe Smith says: Join local carers in ‘Carers Week’ donation morning

June 13, 2013   Carers, carersweek, internet

Chloe Smith says: can you donate old computers? Join local carers in ‘Carers Week’ donation morning

June 12, 2013

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Chloe Smith, Member of Parliament for Norwich North, will on Friday 14th June join a locally-run carers group to call for simple help from the community.

Chloe will be joining “Chill4Us” at a coffee session hosted at Peter Taylor Funeral Directors to show her support and recognition of the hard work of carers.

“Chill4Us” host online chat sessions to reach out to carers who may feel isolated whilst often being confined to their homes whilst looking after their loved one. Chloe has supported her Hellesdon constituent, who runs the group, many times in the past.

Chloe is supporting Chill4Us’ ‘Computers For Carers’ campaign by appealing to local businesses or individuals to show support for local carers by asking for donations of computers and laptops that are no longer needed, so that they can be given to carers who cannot afford computer equipment themselves.

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust 'should rethink' cuts

June 13, 2013   Carers, mental health, Norfolk

Rethink “inadvisable cuts”

The resignation of the chief executive of Norfolk and Suffolk’s mental health services will provide an opportunity to rethink “inadvisable cuts”, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said.

 Aidan Thomas is leaving the post at the end of the month.

Aidan Thomas is leaving the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, which plans to cut up to 500 jobs.

The BMA’s Dr Rob Harwood said it was a time of “disruption and upheaval”.

“Staff are increasingly concerned about the safety and quality of services,” he said.

The trust is looking to save £40m over four years and could lose 49 doctors’ posts.

‘Safe services’

Dr Harwood, chairman of the Eastern regional consultants committee, said the BMA “admired Mr Thomas’s energy, sincerity and commitment” and was “sorry that he has resigned”.

But he urged the trust to use the change in leadership as a chance to reconsider its planned cuts.

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