care in the uk - a disgrace

[Pickman's model]

Do you have a link to the new guidelines?

why not quote the post you desire an answer to, or tag the poster, so the person you ask knows you've asked?

 

[treelover]

Tx

 

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Home care: delivering personal care and practical support to older people living in their own homes | Guidance and guidelines | NICE

Care and support: what's changing?

2.1 How to find out if you’re eligible for a deferred payment agreement
Deferred payment agreements will suit some people’s circumstances better than others’ and not everyone will be eligible. You should be eligible for a deferred payment agreement if:

• you are receiving care in a care home (or you are going to move into one soon)
• you own your own home (unless your partner or certain others live there)
• you have savings and investments of less than £23,250 (not including the value of your home or your pension pot)

Get in touch with your local council to find out about your circumstances and whether you might be eligible for a deferred payment agreement.

Councils may charge a fee to set up a deferred payment agreement and can also charge interest on the amount that is owed to them.

A deferred payment agreement is only one way to pay for care. To find out more about the options available, you can speak to a financial adviser or seek advice from an independent organisation.

Your council will be able to direct you to where you can find out more about this type of advice.

 

[Shechemite]

Line 18: 'Victorian' care system is failing the vulnerable

 

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Another given a warning, putting 13,000 people at risk Major home care provider future 'at risk'

 

[BristolEcho]

They treat their staff like absolute shit too. I'm sure much or that money has been squirreled away nicely.

 

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I'm sure it has. I tried to find out who owned them but ran out of time to search properly.

 

[Chilli.s]

I'm sure it has. I tried to find out who owned them but ran out of time to search properly.

Allied Healthcare? I think that's Carl Michael BROWN.

 

[treelover]

Care system may be a disgrace, but i cannot think of one national event that has been called by the left, civil society, etc.

10 people came to the last meeting hosted by disabled and sick people here.

 

[Shechemite]

Care system may be a disgrace, but i cannot think of one national event that has been called by the left, civil society, etc.

10 people came to the last meeting hosted by disabled and sick people here.

Oh fuck off

 

[treelover]

Go on then, a major event similar to the scale , say UAF, put resources into.

 

[Shechemite]

Go on then, a major event similar to the scale , say UAF, put resources into.

Go on then what?

 

[Calamity1971]

They treat their staff like absolute shit too. I'm sure much or that money has been squirreled away nicely.

I worked for them years ago and they 'actively encouraged whistle blowing' . Yeh, fucking right. I lost count how many times I brought to their attention abuse of service users with nothing ever done. The more things I brought to their attention the less hours I got. Wankers.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Oh fuck off

Go on then, a major event similar to the scale , say UAF, put resources into.

Any chance of a bit of co operation, encouragement and solidarity here?
Any chance we can fight the shitty care 'system' rather than each other?

 

[Shechemite]

Any chance of a bit of co operation, encouragement and solidarity here?
Any chance we can fight the shitty care 'system' rather than each other?

Yeah sure, but this endless negativity from treelover isn’t helpful. I work my arse off in disability/mental health campaigning, and having constant carps about what *isnt* being done is frustrating to read.

 

[Shechemite]

Any chance of a bit of co operation, encouragement and solidarity here?
Any chance we can fight the shitty care 'system' rather than each other?

I also work fucking hard to develop joint action between care staff and us untermenschen, so I’m not going to be lectured about ‘co-operation’

 

[treelover]

No one is criticizing you, its about the priorities and focus of the liberal left, etc.

 

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Apart from more money, I would have everyone in a given trust sharing money rather than them all working independently to make the most of their allocation. It seems like a doctor is happy not to do too much, sometimes telling the patient to go home and call 999 if anything changes, which looks like its pushing the financial burden on to the hospital. To meet targets and reduce costs, the hospital pushes people out before they are ready for it and before they have a care plan in place. Quite often these people end up back in hospital within 24 hours of last discharge. This is all wasting money at the patients expense.
if the doctors shared budgets with the hospital and social services would they not work harder at keeping people out-of hospital?
It would certainly help the patient and costs if everyone worked together a little bit smarter and talked a lot more.
as for carers and care homes, they are severely under funded.
a daily visit by a person like meals on wheels (remember them) was certainly good for a person's mental well being as well as diet/physical well-being.

 

[Shechemite]

Stop the detention of people with autism & learning disability’s in ATU’s


Too many people with Autism and learning disabilities are detained in Assessment and Treatment Units (ATUs), some end up being put in seclusion units, this needs to stop.


Petition: Stop the detention of people with autism & learning disability’s in ATU’s

 

[friendofdorothy]

No one is criticizing you, its about the priorities and focus of the liberal left, etc.

Who are this nebulous left? is there any one focus? Who are you talking about? Please be clearer.

Surely this is just divide and rule going on here. Social care v Health service. Those who can afford care v those who can't. Those who qualify for help v those who don't. Everyone just scrabbling around to get the care they and their families need. Local authority v private care providers. Carers struggling to manage on minimum wages.

Soaring costs v limited resources - this isn't an easy problem for anyone to solve. I don't feel any govt for decades has had any clue how to solve this.

 

[Shechemite]

Spades

“It’s an abomination. It’s manipulative abuse. The last sentence is especially chilling. They are spinning his experience. Just suppose his experience at the ATU isn’t okay. Where does that leave him psychologically? “They’ve told me this is okay. This doesn’t feel okay”. As his new home will possibly involve lots of medication, physical restraint and hours in seclusion, is it okay for the NAS to try and programme him into compliance.


Let’s be frank, whoever wrote this social story wasn’t thinking about Linda’s son at all. It was done so that the school could feel better about themselves. A gloss to cover their shoddily abusive practice.


When you think so little of the people you’re meant to be caring for, then anything goes.”

 

[Shechemite]

Vulnerable children treated ‘like cattle’ in care home system

Vulnerable children are being “treated like cattle” and moved around care homes in England and Wales, with councils routinely inviting companies to compete for the contracts through an online bidding process, experts have said.

A Guardian investigation found evidence of local authorities putting the personal details of children in online adverts, including information about previous sexual abuse and gang involvement, while inviting bids from private companies for their care.

 

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It's no way to start a life

 

[Shechemite]

Anyone here like to join a protest on the state of mental health ‘care’?

 

[BristolEcho]

Good work. Bad day and time for me but will let people know in London. Hope it's a good turn out.

 

[Shechemite]

Cheers, have created a thread for it:

Mental Health Resistance Network - Protesting Cuts and Coercion

 

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Looks like Allied have funding until the 30th, then curtains? Wandsworth home care provider is at risk | Wandsworth Times

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Sometimes it’s alright though.
Care in the U.K.
Lots of heroes in there.
Don’t get the same respect as nurses though

 

[Shechemite]

Carer caught on camera stealing money out of elderly dementia patient's purse

A carer who was caught on camera stealing money from an elderly dementia sufferer has avoided a jail sentence.

Sophy Retallick was handed a 12-week suspended sentence after she was caught on CCTV taking money from the purse of an 83-year-old known only as Ivy.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/carer-caught-camera-stealing-money-elderly-dementia-patients-purse-140613268.html

 

[Friedrich986]

Theresa May had a good idea with the 'dementia tax', just the timing was out

She should have won the election first, then tried it.