Posted in News on Feb 22nd, 2010
Health secretary Andy Burnham has announced plans for the NHS to transfer a growing number of services from hospital to the patient’s home. Treatments such as chemotherapy and kidney dialysis are among those earmarked for a change in setting. The move is seen as part of Labour’s plans to tailor health and social care services [...]
Posted in News on Feb 12th, 2010
In other news around the White Paper, the Guardian reports that the government is considering a compulsory levy of £20,000 to be charged to an individual’s estate after their death. The money raised would be put into the social care funding ‘pot’ for care home fees. Ministers are currently divided over the scheme, which some [...]
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2010
Four charities have come together to give their backing to the Personal Care at Home bill, which was due for its second reading in Parliament on 1 February. Age Concern / Help the Aged, Counsel and Care, Parkinson’s Disease Society and Carers UK issued a joint statement in support of the Bill, which promises free [...]
Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2010
Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg has announce that, if elected, his party will drop plans to provide free personal care for the elderly. They had previously announced a £2.8 billion budget allocation for personal care. The Lib Dems will also look to reduce budgets in many other areas, in an attempt to reduce [...]
Posted in News on Dec 31st, 2009
The Department of Health has published a report outlining its 5 year plan for reshaping the NHS. Entitled ‘NHS 2010-2015: from good to great. Preventative, people-centred, productive’, the report tells how the NHS plans to meet the country’s increasing care needs whilst dealing with the financial constraints of the recession. Its publication [...]
Posted in News on Dec 21st, 2009
Health secretary Andy Burnham has made the second Parliamentary reading of Labour’s Personal Care at Home bill, which proposes providing free home care to all elderly people that require it. As was the case with the first reading, charities have questioned how the £670 cost of funding the care will be met, with Age [...]
Posted in News on Nov 30th, 2009
The Queen’s speech at the state opening of Parliament on 18 November – the last before the next general election – has echoed Gordon Brown’s recent pledge to provide free personal home care to the UK’s neediest elderly and disabled people. Around 280,000 people can expect to benefit from the move – although 160,000 [...]
Posted in News on Oct 7th, 2009
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) has now issued new forms to be completed to nominate a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA). The new forms, in force from 1 October 2009, will come as a relief to many who have been put off nominating a LPA because of the length and complexity of [...]
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2009
Below is a selection of official responses to the Green Paper on the future of adult social care in England that was published on 14 July. To read Cheselden’s official response, click here. [link to response in Media section]
Social and health care sector responses
‘The NHS is responsible for funding the nursing care of [...]
Posted in News on Jun 29th, 2009
The charity Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales has announced the launch of ‘My Home Life Wales’, a new programme designed to improve the quality of life of residents of Welsh care homes. Recent research has shown that care home residents are amongst the most socially disadvantaged groups in the UK, [...]
