Tag Archives: carers

Chill4us is 12 years old today

August 6, 2011   Carers

 

Congratulations everyone Chill4us is 12 years old today.
 
We could not have done it without your support over the years and would like to take this opportunity to thank you all, it has made chill4us the success it is today and will continue for many years to come.
 
 
We are having a chat room party tonight at 8pm to celebrate, there will be a quiz at 8.15pm.
 
 
Many thanks to everyone who read and post comments on the front page, it is very much appreciated.
 
hacon
 
Chill4us Team
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Cornwall has been chosen as a HealthWatch Pathfinder

August 5, 2011   Carers, disability, family

Cornwall is chosen as one of new HealthWatch pathfinders

Source: eGov monitor – A Policy Dialogue Platform Published Friday, 5 August, 2011 – 14:21

 

 Cornwall has been chosen by the Government to help test a new scheme which is designed to give a stronger voice to patients and carers at both a local and a national level.

 
Under the Government’s health reforms local authorities will take on the responsibility for commissioning a local HealthWatch from October 2012.  Local HealthWatch will replace LINKs (Local Involvement Networks) but will have greater powers to strengthen the patient and public voice in health and social care services.  At a national level, HealthWatch England will be established as the independent patient champion within the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

 

Earlier this year all local authorities were invited to apply to become pathfinders to test how a local HealthWatch might work in practice and support Government thinking on how they might operate.  Cornwall was one of 157 councils from across the country to submit a bid.  Of these 75 have now been chosen as Pathfinders, with Cornwall one of eight authorities selected from the South West.

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We are so proud of our young son who cares for us

August 5, 2011   Carers, Diabetes, young carers

Carers’ Appeal: ‘We’re so proud of him’

 

Young Carers, Lisa and Neil Calvert with Poppie-May Simpkins (5) and Callum Britton (9)

 

Published on Friday 5 August 2011 09:38

“I’M really proud of him. He does a really good job and I don’t know how I’d manage if he wasn’t helping me.”

 

Lisa Calvert, 38, from Wisbech Road, South Lynn, is cared for by her son, Callum Britton, aged nine. Mrs Calvert suffers with type-2 diabetes, ankylosing spondylitis – a form of inflammatory arthritis in the spine – and depression.

She was also diagnosed with conversion disorder in 2005, a condition in which people experience neurological symptoms such as numbness, blindness, paralysis or fits without a neurological cause.

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