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CARE OF DEMENTIA PATIENTS ‘BEGGARS BELIEF’ SAYS FIONA PHILLIPS
TV presenter Fiona Phillips yesterday condemned the care of Alzheimer’s patients in Britain and said it “beggars belief” that sufferers are left to “get on with it” without proper support.
Saturday March 10,2012
By Jo Wiley
The former GMTV host spoke movingly of her own plight dealing with the disease just weeks after the death of her beloved father Neville.
Speaking at an international conference on Alzheimer’s, she says she feels he was let down at the end of his life.
He was left a shadow of his former self, “totally out of it” on a cocktail of “chemical cosh” dementia drugs.
Dementia patients’ ‘postcode lottery’ of care
Dementia patients across England are receiving a “postcode lottery” of care, with health authority spending per patient varying 21-fold.
Freedom of information requests to 134 primary care trusts (PCTs) have found the amount spent per dementia patient varies from £38 at NHS Nottinghamshire County to £802 at NHS Barnsley. The average for the 54 which provided information to GP magazine, which submitted the FOI requests, was £160. Four in 10 spent less than £100.
Care home residents moved out of home for their safety
Residents of a Lowestoft care home moved out because of state of cleanliness of their rooms
Friday, March 2, 2012
1:39 PM
Residents of a Lowestoft care home were moved out yesterday evening because of the state of the cleanliness of residents’s rooms.
The 15 residents of Orme House Residential Care Home have been relocated to other homes in the area by Suffolk County Council.
The move came after an inspection by environmental health officers by Waveney District Council.
The officers had visited the building after someone contacted the district council over concerns over health and safety issues linked to wiring and electrical equipment.
Phil Harris, district council spokesman said; “However on entering environmental health officers realised there were far greater concerns environmental health concerns.
