Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2010
The Guardian reports on the success of 146 schemes that aimed to reduce the NHS’s elderly care costs by promoting healthier living and dealing with problems at an early stage. The Partnerships for Older People Projects (POPPS) ran across 29 English councils between 2006 and 2009 and promoted joint working between social services and healthcare [...]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2010
The Department of Health has written to all PCTs and SHAs to remind them that, within the revised National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care, they should be operating a policy of personalised care planning. An updated version of the Framework was published in July 2009 to take account of the increasing [...]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2010
The case of John Mejor, 88, whose continuing care funding was recently withdrawn by NHS Devon, has attracted nationwide media interest. Originally reported in the Exmouth Journal, Mr Mejor’s situation has since been highlighted by several national media including the Daily Mail, Radio 4 and Five Live. Mr Mejor, who served as a [...]
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2010
The public services ombudsman has ruled that the Welsh NHS ‘failed in its duty’ to fund and provide care for a patient, known only as ‘Mr B’, who sustained serious head injuries after being attacked. Mr B’s parents had to pay a substantial amount of money from their retirement savings for private treatments after [...]
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2010
The Daily Mail reports that a Wiltshire woman suffering from severe dementia has been denied continuing care funding as her PCT does not consider she has an overriding health need. The decision is being challenged by Phyllis Knight’s daughter, Angela Howard. Mrs Knight has been living in a care home since her husband, [...]
Posted in News on Dec 31st, 2009
After an 11 month campaign, NHS Devon has finally told Harold Cunningham that continuing care funding will be reinstated for his severely disabled wife. Funding was withdrawn from Mrs Cunningham – who needs 24 hour care after being badly hurt in a car crash in 2001 – and many others by Devon PCT in [...]
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 10th, 2009
Businessman and former chief executive of Granada TV Gerry Robinson has made a two-part BBC documentary entitled ‘Can Gerry Robinson fix dementia care homes?’ Further to his own experiences with his father, who died of dementia, Mr Robinson decided to investigate the standards of dementia care that are available in England’s care homes and [...]
Posted in News on Dec 10th, 2009
Assembly Member for Wrexham Lesley Griffiths has urged Wales’ army of unpaid carers to make the most of the benefits and support that are available to supplement their income and protect their pensions. Over 375,000 unpaid carers provide around £4.7 billion of free care every year in Wales, yet many of them do not [...]
Posted in News on Dec 7th, 2009
The Times has revealed that Gordon Brown’s recent pledge to provide free social care to England’s 400,000 neediest people will come at the expense of vital funding into diseases such as dementia. Questions were raised over how the Government will pay the £670 million bill for providing the free care as soon as the [...]
