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Caring duo are declared NHS Heroes

TWO “exceptional” Tamworth health professionals have been celebrated as NHS Heroes.

Nicola Hall and Les Dennis, who both serve in the Tamworth area, have been honoured in the national scheme to recognise and celebrate the extraordinary work that staff in the NHS carry out every day.

  1. Nicola Hall and Les Brooks have been awarded certificates thanking them for their dedication and care after being honoured as NHS Heroes.

Nicola, aged 37, from Polesworth, was credited for “totally transforming carer services in the Tamworth area”, and was further honoured for “always looking for new ways to support carers and provide opportunities for them”.

Nicola, who works as a carers assessment worker, said: “It’s my day job at the end of the day but it’s nice to be acknowledged. I do love my job, and it feels good to make a difference.”

Les, who was trained at St Matthew’s Hospital in Lichfield, received his honour after “providing high quality mental health care to the people of Tamworth, Lichfield and Burntwood for 30 years”.

He plans to retire in November, and admitted he will miss his job.

£50m set aside for dementia patients

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt makes fund available to create calming environments in treatment of dementia

 

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has made £50m available to create calming environments for people with dementia.

A new fund of £50m to create calming environments for people with dementia, which aid treatment by helping sufferers to avoid confusion, will be announced on Thursday by the health secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The money will be available to NHS trusts and local authorities working in partnership with social care providers to help tailor hospitals and care homes to the needs of those with dementia.

Hunt’s aides claim that the announcement puts the care of sufferers at the heart of his priorities in a week when abusive workers from Winterbourne View care home are sentenced for assaulting elderly and frail patients.

But critics point out that the money will make an insignificant impact upon the key problem within the sector. It does not address long term funding for thousands of sufferers who need constant care but are increasingly left to fend for themselves in the private sector.

Doctors to launch investigation into Liverpool Care Pathway

Doctors are to investigate whether the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway, which is supposed to alleviate suffering, is actually being used to deliberately hasten death.

Hundreds of elderly people are being neglected in NHS hospitals

11:27AM BST 24 Oct 2012

Palliative care doctors are preparing to open an investigation in concerns that the Liverpool Care Pathway is being used to deliberately hasten the death of elderly and terminally-ill patients.

The Association for Palliative Medicine, representing over 1,000 doctors working in hospices and specialist palliative care units throughout the country, is going to carry out research to see if the LCP is operating as a “euthanasia pathway”.