Posted in News on Jun 17th, 2009
Age Concern and Help the Aged has challenged the ‘excellent’ ratings awarded to many local authorities for the standard of social care that they provide to people at home. The charity asserts that despite receiving three star ratings, many councils are failing to provide enough help to vulnerable elderly people with basic tasks such [...]
Posted in News on Jun 15th, 2009
National Carers Week, which ran from 8 to 14 June 2009, involved a wide range of events and projects to highlight the vital role of unpaid carers in the UK. 10 national charities supported the Week, including the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Carers UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and Counsel + Care. Results of two [...]
Posted in News on Jun 15th, 2009
The charity Age Concern, now merged with Help the Aged, ran a ‘Week of Action on Care’ between 8 and 12 June 2009. The aim was to promote a higher standard of care for older people and to force politicians to take notice of the current failing system. Age Concern actively encouraged people [...]
Posted in News on Jun 2nd, 2009
Age Concern and Help the Aged in Wales have launched a new care programme called ‘My Home Life Wales’. The programme aims to improve the quality of life for care home residents, staff and visitors. The project will be led by John Moore, who managed a care home and worked for social services [...]
Posted in News on Apr 6th, 2009
The head of the new Care Quality Commission, Cynthia Bower, has vowed to tackle the existing gap between the nation’s health and social care services. The CQC – the new ‘super regulator’ of England’s care services – aims to improve standards across all areas of care, but is starting with a review into healthcare [...]
Posted in News on Mar 17th, 2009
Age Concern England and Help the Aged are to merge, forming a new ‘super charity’ to champion the needs and rights of the nation’s elderly. The move will be formally marked at their joint conference entitled ‘One Voice: Shaping our ageing society’, which is to be held on 7 April 2009 at the Victoria [...]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2009
Care services minister Phil Hope reveals that the National Framework for continuing care, introduced in October 2007, has not achieved its goal of abolishing the ‘postcode lottery’ of care in England. There is still widespread variation in the proportion of people who receive funding for long-term care. Figures released by Mr Hope show [...]
Posted in News on Nov 27th, 2008
This Wales Online article reports on the forthcoming shake-up of the NHS in Wales and analyses the existing problems and the ways they might be overcome. Amongst other areas, the article discusses the divide between health and social care and how a sick person’s needs should be looked at in full, not just from a [...]
