Tag Archives: carers
NHS Trust spending on carers to be scrutinised
“This cannot go on – and the NHS knows something serious must be done to root out poor care.”
24 November, 2011 | By The Press Association
NHS trusts will be forced by the government to say how they spend cash intended for carers after research suggests it does not always reach the frontline.
Ministers have pledged £400m between 2011 and 2015 to help England’s five million carers.
But research from the Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care found spending on carers by primary care trusts has fallen by £2.4m this year.
Cancer cash wasted on NHS salaries
Cancer care on the NHS lags behind that in many other developed countries because Labour wasted billions of pounds on PFI schemes, bureaucracy and inflated salaries for managers, the Health Secretary will say on Thursday.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
10:00PM GMT 23 Nov 2011
A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found that, despite record spending on health care, cancer survival rates in Britain are worse than in Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
Survival rates for breast cancer, prostate cancer and cervical cancer were below the average for the 34 developed countries in the study.
GURPREET’S WINNING DESIGN AIDS CHARITY
The finger painting skills of an eight-year-old Bushey girl will be gracing thousands of greetings cards this Christmas
3:37pm Tuesday 22nd November 2011
The finger painting skills of an eight-year-old Bushey girl will be gracing thousands of greetings cards this Christmas. Profoundly disabled Gurpreet Juttla was a winner in a national Mencap competition and now the cards are being sold through the John Lewis Partnership to raise money for the charity.
Gurpreet is a pupil at Meadow Wood School in Coldharbour Lane which supports children who have a physical and neurological impairment. She also attends the Watford Mencap Children’s Centre at the Lemarie Centre in North Watford.
She has been a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London since she was born and has undergone a series of life saving operations including open heart surgery.
