Charity warns that the number of stroke professionals in the UK is at a worryingly low level.
Source: Stroke care facing a ‘ticking time-bomb’, says charity : Welfare Weekly
Author: Chris Sterry commenting
Married with 3 adult step-children and 3 grandchildren.
I live with my wife and our adult daughter, who has multiple physical and severe learning disabilities and utism.
I blog about areas that interest me, but mainly about disability issues.
Now I am retired, any of my spare time is devoted to issues around disability, social care and health related issues.
I am therefore a
Family Carers rep on Sheffield LD Partnership Board
Facilitator of a LD Carers support group, namely LD Carers Butty Group
Member of FLASH (Families Lobbying and Advising Sheffield) being a group of LD Carers who take on issues, but not individual issues, and relate these to Sheffield City Council Adult Social Care and Commissioning and the respective health providers.
Trustee of Sheffield Mencap & Gateway
Member of Carers Expert Panel at Sheffield Carers Centre
Member of Sheffield Adult Safeguarding Customer Forum
Enter & View rep with Healthwatch Sheffield
Undertake PLACE visits on behalf of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Undertake a number of Co-production projects with various organisations within Sheffield
Solving the crisis in Social Care
Social Care is just as important as Health Care, but does not receive the support is should do.
With this in mind please could I mention that the forthcoming Budget is an important opportunity to address the crucial issue of funding for Social Care, but will it.
Boris has promised, but will he keep his promise and even if money is made available will it be sufficient.
Boris has now mentioned it will take 5 years to get the funding, Social Care can not wait that long.
Boris needs to be told this is not good enough, so it is essential we keep the pressure on Boris and my petition ‘Solve the crisis in Social Care could be the means.
Please see below
We now have the New Year 2020.
However, if the ‘Crisis in Social Care’ is not Solved soon there will not be many more New Years for the care, required for persons in need of care, to be provided by Local Authorities due to their lack of funding. This will then have a much greater impact on health care provision, which is itself in crisis.
I have therefore created my latest petition, please follow the link
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/solve-the-crisis-in-social-care
For more information please follow the link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0f2skyxy37udqb/Solve%20the%20crisis%20in%20Social%20Care.docx?dl=0
This Petition needs You, please sign to show your support for you will not know when you or someone in your family will need social care.
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They’re heading into their final plenary session before they come out of the EP at the end of the month.
Source: Conflicting emotions as MEPs from the UK prepare to leave the European Parliament | Euronews
The ‘playing the race card’ accusation is just a way to silence us | Afua Hirsch | Opinion | The Guardian
Many British people are ignorant about how racism works. Yet when black people try to explain, our experience is denied, says Guardian columnist Afua Hirsch
White House broke law by withholding Ukraine aid, congressional agency says – Reuters
The White House violated federal law by withholding security aid approved by lawmakers for Ukraine, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog said on Thursday, in a blow for U.S. President Donald Trump as the Senate prepared to hold a trial on whether to remove him from office.
Source: White House broke law by withholding Ukraine aid, congressional agency says – Reuters
Leaders vent fury over PM’s admission on social care delay : Care Home Professional
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- Source: Leaders vent fury over PM’s admission on social care delay
- Care Home Professional
Did Jeremy Corbyn stay loyal to his mentor Tony Benn, and help make Brexit happen? – Nye Bevan News
Is Jeremy Corbyn as much a hero of Brexit as Nigel Farage, or Boris Johnson, or Tony Benn? Should Brexiteers, left wing or right wing, toast Jeremy Corbyn? No, I’m serious. I know to many he is a bumbling fool, or worse, a threat to the nation. To many his politics are anathema, as are […]
Source: Did Jeremy Corbyn stay loyal to his mentor Tony Benn, and help make Brexit happen? – Nye Bevan News
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The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has contradicted Matt Hancock’s suggestion that the four-hour target should be replaced, saying there was no evidence yet of a viable replacement.
Trump administration proposes rule to punish disabled people : Daily Kos
In its ongoing efforts to make life just that much more difficult and humiliating for vulnerable people, the Trump administration is floating a new rule that would add in layers of bureaucracy for some people receiving Social Security Disability Insurance. The administrative costs for that added level of review would basically zero out any savings to the program, proving once again that cruelty is the point for Donald Trump and team.
Source: Trump administration proposes rule to punish disabled people : Daily Kos
