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Closure plan for Sheffield dementia centres
24 October 2012 Last updated at 09:48
Two of Sheffield’s three dementia support centres may be closed.
Councillors will be asked to consider closing the Norbury Centre in Fir Vale and Bole Hill View in Crookes.
Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, which runs the centres, and the city council, which funds them, said the plan would save £835,000.
The money will be used to improve the remaining centre, Hurlfield View at Arbour, and provide more services to people at home.
The proposal follows a consultation period, during which people with dementia and their carers were asked to give feedback on the services they received and how they could be improved.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt visits Norwich dementia unit
The reality of living with and caring for someone with dementia is extremely tough, and Thorpe St Andrew pensioner Maurice Bartle was among carers who told health secretary Jeremy Hunt more about the difficulties they face when he visited Norwich yesterday.
Kim Briscoe, Health correspondent Saturday, October 20, 2012
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Jeremy Hunt talking to dementia carer
The 72-year-old lives in South Hill Road with his wife Shirley, also 72, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago.
Mr Bartle, a retired maintenance electrician, said: “At the moment we are going through a difficult patch. The wife has got a bit of a rejection of drugs and of me sometimes.”
The pair visit Hammerton Court’s day centre one day a week and Mr Bartle said he valued being able to meet other carers.
The £13m unit, in Bowthorpe Road, has 36 bedrooms and also houses the Norfolk Dementia Care Academy – which aims to be a centre of excellence in training staff and carers to look after people with the illness.
He said: “I have found it ideal, but it’s not for long enough and I wish we could come for longer.
“I have found it very informative and it’s given me a lot of extra information I wasn’t aware of until I came here.”
New era of five-yearly doctor checks starts
New era of five-yearly doctor checks starts
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt: “Doctors will get a chance to address deficiencies”
Regular checks on doctors’ skills will start from December, heralding the biggest shake-up in medical regulation for more than 150 years.
The UK’s 220,000 doctors will have annual appraisals, with a decision taken every five years on whether they are fit to continue working.
But it will be April 2016 before the vast majority of the first round of checks have been done.
The health secretary said it was about addressing “deficiencies” in skills.
Jeremy Hunt said that if doctors failed to satisfy the standards of the General Medical Council (GMC) they would be prevented from practising.
But he said the new system was about identifying where there were “gaps” in knowledge or skills and giving doctors a “chance to put those issues right”.
