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Care services minister Phil Hope and children's minister Baroness Morgan will give the government's response to the Social Work Task Force report at a special Community Care conference next Thursday. Social Work Task Force and Beyond: Rising to Read More......( read more )
Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Labour's Regional Minister for the East Midlands, Phil Hope MP, is urging local councils to make full use of new funding to tackle anti-social behaviour, which has been announced today by Labour's Communities Secretary John Denham and Housing Minister John Healey. Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Derby, Bolsover and Leicester councils will all receive a...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
E ntrepreneurially minded people working in health and social care with innovative ideas that could improve services, products and ways of working, can now apply for eight new types of investment to make their ideas a reality, The Social Investment Business and the Department of Health announced today. These eight investment products will be available through the Department of Health’s Social...
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Britain still killing off the infirm elderly At least 1,800 dementia sufferers die each year from 'chemical cosh' drugs they shouldn't even be given, a report has found. Just one in five of the 180,000 dementia patients prescribed the anti-psychotic drugs benefit, meaning nearly 150,000 are given them needlessly. But one in 100 is condemned to an early death, while many more suffer debilitating side-effects,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Nearly 2,000 elderly patients are killed each year by unnecessary anti-psychotic medication, report finds As many as many as 144,000 people suffering from dementia are being given anti-psychotic drugs unnecessarily, according to a review ordered by the Department of Health. Excessive use of the medication causes an estimated 1,800 deaths and almost as many strokes among older people every year, the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
One of the Social Work Taskforce's central preoccupations is how best to stimulate professionalism, confidence and morale among social workers. It's final report is due out this autumn. Now the Social Care Institute for Excellence launched Social Care TV, which it hopes will help tackle these issues, as well as provoke debate. While teachers have had their own TV channel for some while, this is the...
Living life to the full around the world (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Senior minister confirms DLA is under threat The truth is finally out. A senior government minister this week confirmed to the House of Lords that axing DLA has definitely not been ruled out, directly contradicting care minister Phil Hope’s earlier claim that DLA is safe Last month we reported that care minister Phil Hope had told a Disability Now reporter in an off-the-cuff exchange at the Labour...
Community Care's CareSpace (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Care service minister Phil Hope certainly put in the miles for this year's National Children and Adult Services Conference in Harrogate. On Wednesday he had planned to speak at a number of events. He managed to give an interview to Community Care Read More......( read more )
Community Care's CareSpace (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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 Harrogate Read More......( read more )
Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Over £500,000 raised from the assets and goods seized from the country's wealthiest criminals is being re-distributed to worthy community groups here in the East Midlands. It is part of the £4 million Community Cashback Scheme where members of the public were asked to vote for which community groups they wanted to see receive a share of the cash. In total 30 projects in the East Midlands...
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NEWS (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
More Racist Graffiti More graffiti of a anti-white racist nature appeared in the Broad Green area of Wellingborough overnight. A garage door on Hardwick Road was sprayed in red paint with the words 'White Cracka Fad(j)ad'. Whilst this means utter gibberish to the vast majority of the public the word Cracka is a term used to insult white people which has become more popular recently with Blacks as the...
Chief Executive's Blog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
13 October 2009 The National Skills Academy for Social Care was launched today in Westminster by two Ministers; Kevin Brennan MP from the Department for Business, innovation and Skills and Phil Hope from the Department of Health who was had done a re recording as he was unable to attend in person. I have been on the steering group of the Skills Academy and am now a member of the Board of Trustees....
The Melangerie (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Melanie Reid, writing in today's Times about reports that several of our parliamentarians will be required to repay sums of money ranging into five figures, concludes her cogitations with the following paragraph: Normal people live to the limits of the income. Spend, be generous, make loved ones happy. If we have extra funds, we repay mortgages more quickly, or book a holiday, or dump it in an ISA....
Andy Reed MP (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Loughborough MP Andy Reed told Health Ministers that standards of care were not good enough despite the Care Quality Commissions work. During Health Questions in the Commons yesterday Loughborough MP Andy Reed told Phil Hope MP that carers had been in tears describing the level of care they had witnessed for their loved ones. Andy Reed had visited Charnwood Carers Group last week in Loughborough and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Cash is being diverted to pay off debts, instead of providing respite breaks for those who care for dependents at home More than three-quarters of government funding allocated to provide respite breaks for carers has not reached those in need of help, according to two charities. Of the £50m intended for use this year to relieve the burden on stressed family members and friends who look after...
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