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A musical message to save children’s heart services at Royal Brompton
A brilliant video, please save the Royal Brompton.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsIFqLQRff8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
http://www.nhs.uk/Services/Hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=1523
Britain has one paid carer for every 100 pensioners…
Britain has one carer for every 100 pensioners… among the worst in the world
Last updated at 11:13 PM on 1st July 2011
Britain has just one carer per 100 pensioners – a smaller proportion than anywhere else in the developed world, figures show.
According to an international survey, Ireland has three times as many carers per 100 pensioners. The U.S. has five times as many and Sweden has 12 times as many.
The figures, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents industrialised nations, help explain the poor quality of care in many of our residential homes, as well as the appalling standards of home-help services, which last month were described as an affront to the human rights of the elderly.
Rare: The number of carers working in Britain has halved since the 1990s
‘Stunning inequities’ in end-of-life care, report says
1 July 2011 Last updated at 01:16
An independent review is calling for a set of universal standards for care of the dying after uncovering “stunning inequities” in provision in England.
The inquiry, requested last year by the government, says the current system is confusing and inconsistent.
