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Making improvements for carers in Gwent
Carers need more support
12:31pm Thursday 1st September 2011
By Andy Rutherford – Health correspondent »
THE focus and attention given to the needs of carers by the NHS in Gwent is “patchy and sporadic” and improvements are being planned to meet the demands of new Wales-wide regulations.
The numbers of carers across Gwent runs into the tens of thousands – there are believed to be 15,000 in Newport alone – and more pertinently, there are predicted to be large increases in carers aged 65 and over during the next 20 years.
Elderly carer numbers are expected to rise by almost a third (31 per cent) in Gwent by 2030, though this could vary between 26 per cent (in Newport) and 37 per cent (in Monmouthshire).
Family home carers need the internet
Motivation remains the toughest nut to crack when encouraging people to go online
ONS stats from the Labour Force Survey are out –
8.7m adults (17.4%) have never used the internet, compared to 41m (82.3%) who have.
77% of households have Internet access = up 4% year on year
45% of individuals connected to the web via a mobile phone in the previous 12 months, and 6m of them did so for the first time
Wireless hotspot users almost doubled in the last 12 months to 4.9m
Only 44% of Internet users interact with public authorities online
Disabled activists planning a new wave of protests 30th September
New wave of protests to target ‘fitness to work’ company
Disabled activists are planning a new wave of protests aimed at the company paid to carry out controversial “fitness to work” tests on behalf of the government.Atos Healthcare has been targeted repeatedly by campaigners over the accuracy of its assessments, the way it treats disabled benefits claimants, and the generosity of its contract with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
The protests will take place across the UK on 30 September – many of them led by disabled people – with the most prominent likely to be outside a recruitment fair being run by the BMJ [formerly the British Medical Journal] in Islington, north London.
