The Department of Health is celebrating the success of its Dignity in
Care campaign which has so far attracted 10,000 Dignity Champions. The
department credits the rise in applications to be champions to the
involvement of Sir Michael Parkinson who has spearheaded the call for
volunteers. This has happened to me before. I'm presently sat at home typing this rather than in the office because in my attempt to be Kobe Bryant I ended up sprawled on the floor clutching a badly sprained ankle. That's not what has happened before though. The shadow secretary of state for communities and local government, Caroline Spelman, has ignited the debate over the quality of care delivered to those with muscular dystrophy. She criticised the government saying many in her constituency had trouble getting access to various therapies from the "overstretched, unco-ordinated" services.A couple that sent a letter to the BBC criticising assisted suicide laws have been found dead. They said in their letter to the broadcaster that they could no longer attain the quality of life they desired.
On any given day on the internet you can find a whole load of tweets,
blogs or news about the grooviest gadgets. They all have one thing in
common - they look sexy. Care products on the other hand, don't. Disabled people will be allowed to keep their disability living allowance but pensioner's attendance allowance may still be replaced under plans announced by secretary of state for health, Andy Burnham.
Speaking to the national children and adult services conference in Harrogate Burnham also promised to bring in age discrimination legislation for health and social care at the same times as other sectors
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Lynda Bellingham, Oxo mum, Strictly Come Dancing star and one of ITV's Loose Women, is standing up for social care.
The actress grabbed the microphone back at the end of the National Children and Adult Service Conference session on the dementia strategy to tell the audience: "I want to start a campaign for all of you to make people appreciate all the work you do. I think you're wonderful."
Care minister Phil Hope has announced that the government will be appointing a national clinical lead for dementia.
Speaking at an event discussing the implementation of the government's dementia strategy as part of the NCAS conference in
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The DH wanted to create a debate around its Green Paper on the future of adult social care and debate it has created - just not the one it was hoping for.
At the National Children and Adult the Services Conference in Harrogate, the famed double act of care service minister Phil Hope and David Behan, director general for social care at the DH, presented an update in which Behan admitted at large proportion of the 15,000 responses to the Green Paper were about proposals concerning attendance allowance and disability living allowance.
National care charity Counsel and Care have responded to the government's refusal to raise the Personal Expenses Allowance to £40, as recommended by the Department of Work and Pensions Select Committee.The Social Work blog covers the challenges facing Britain’s 2m-strong social care workforce: everything from pay and working conditions to stress and the latest social work conduct cases. |
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