Tag Archives: carers

Wokingham becomes first council to privatise social care

June 9, 2011   Carers, Older care

Will others follow this?  It is ok when things work well but when things go wrong the councils will be left to pick up the pieces.

Wokingham becomes first council to privatise social care

 
June 09, 2011

Wokingham borough has become the first unitary authority in the country to set up a company to manage its provision of social care.

Optalis, a new adult social care company set up and managed by Wokingham Borough Council, began commercial operations on Monday.

The team behind the company has taken control of all council-run or commissioned adult care services.

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Breakthrough offers hope for heart failure

June 9, 2011   Carers, Heart

Breakthrough offers hope for heart failure

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Today, thanks to medical advances, lots of people survive a heart attack. But this means that many people are living with a damaged heart. This can lead to heart failure, which affects more than 750,000 people in the UK.

Right now there’s no way to restore the damage to heart muscle caused by a heart attack so we can’t prevent heart failure, but there is hope

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Call for curb on dementia drugs

June 9, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Call for curb on dementia drugs

Press Association – Thu, Jun 9, 2011

Patients with dementia who take antipsychotics should have their prescriptions reviewed within a year, campaigners have said.

They hope the action will help reduce the use of such drugs which have been shown to almost double the risk of early death when taken over a prolonged period.

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