Tag Archives: family

Bank holidays are not good for family carers or the disabled

Five bank holidays in a 6 week period mean that many thousands of sick, elderly, disabled and their carers are being forced to manage alone without care help,
Even if the agencies or local authoroties can provide care workers on these days, many vulnerable people are unable to afford the extra charges for bank holiday working.
So for all the millions being lavished on the royal wedding, as usual it is the ones who can least afford it who suffer.

Written by a carer

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Antony Gray’s fundraising page Team Milo

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I can not believe I have decided to run the London Marathon again! I must be mad, but something just makes me want to do it again.

Restoring the formal right for patients to be registered with a dentist

Dentists switch to new pay system based on “quality”By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News

dental check up
The new payment system aims to reward and drive up quality

From this summer, dentists in England will be paid for the quality of the treatment they give rather than the quantity, the government has confirmed.