Tag Archives: carers

Minister’s actually listening to what patients want!

April 27, 2011   Carers, health

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Care Services Minister Paul Burstow today heard views from patients at the first listening event on NHS modernisation exclusively for patients.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today also met staff and patients at a listening event at a GP consortium.

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It will cost people a lot more for day care services that they can’t afford!

April 27, 2011   Carers, disability, mental health

Warning over plans to axe free day care

Apr 27, 2011

PROTESTORS are likely to lose their campaign to save free day-care services in Teesdale .
And experts warn the move will increase financial pressure on vulnerable people in the dale.
Durham County Council is expected to agree to proposals to begin charging hundreds of elderly, disabled and disadvantaged people for their day care.
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Better care for ME is a step closer in Norfolk

April 26, 2011   Carers, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Better care for ME is a step closer in Norfolk

by Kim Briscoe
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
4:17 PM

Kerry Newnham, from Lowestoft, who is bed-bound with ME. Kerry Newnham, from Lowestoft, who is bed-bound with ME.

 Plans to conduct pioneering research in Norwich into a debilitating illness are a step closer – as is securing better care for Norfolk and Suffolk’s most seriously ill ME patients

 What is ME?

ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) is a serious, disabling and chronic organic (ie physical not mental) disorder. ME has been classified by the World Health Organisation as a neurological illness. Approximately 25pc of those affected will go on to develop severe ME which is an extremely debilitating illness, sometimes lasting for years, in some cases, even decades, often rendering the sufferer completely housebound, wheelchair and bed-bound and dependent upon carers for their everyday needs.

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