You lie in your own mess. You are cold. You are hungry and confused. You can’t remember whether you have taken your pills. You feel ashamed. You feel angry. It is still five hours before someone will knock on the door, let herself in, and wash you. You hope for a few minutes’ talk but you know that it won’t happen. She only has a quarter of an hour for your appointment …
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Who will speak for the old and disabled, trapped in their homes?
We hear a lot about how cuts affect women and the young – but the crisis in social care is perhaps the greatest of them all
The most vocally excluded of all in our society are the old and poor.
More needs to be done for mental health care in the community
Mental health teams in hospitals can achieve major cost savings to the NHS, reveals new report
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
Liaison psychiatry teams in general hospitals can cut costs to the NHS by reducing how many people need beds and how long they stay, according to a report published by Centre for Mental Health with the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and funded by the Strategic Health Authority Mental Health Leads.
Liaison psychiatry services provide mental health care to people being treated for physical health conditions in general hospitals.
Vulnerable families and carers will be pushed past breaking point
The most vulnerable are already being hammered by benefit cuts
- Friday 18 November 2011
Vulnerable families will be pushed past breaking point if Chancellor George Osborne holds down the annual uprating of benefits, a charity warned today.
Unconfirmed reports in The Times today claimed that Mr Osborne is planning to slice £1 billion off the welfare bill by breaking a long-standing procedure under which benefits are upgraded each year in line with September’s inflation rate.
