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Jun 19th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
With a goal to assist carers in the United Kingdom, Intel Corporation unveiled ConnectingForCare.co.uk, the first online community of its kind for family carers, community and district nurses, healthcare assistants, social care workers and others to share information and provide emotional support to one another, filling a void in today’s healthcare system.
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Jun 12th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
A 50 year old registered nurse from Herne Bay, Kent has received a 5 year caution order from the Nursing & Midwifery Council following a string of incidents in which he failed to ensure that a patient received the appropriate standard of care.Takoorparsad Kanayalall Ghowry was the owner and Registered Manager of St Stephens Residential Home when between January 2004 and February 2004 three charges were brought against him for misconduct.
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Jun 12th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
Clare Tickell, Chief Executive, NCH, the children’s charity says: Young carers are often the invisible faces of caring. Their needs are complex and should not be seen in isolation from the person they are caring for - often they are forced to step in to meet the needs of a relative which are not being fully met by adult care services.
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Jun 12th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
The Government has announced a new National Strategy for Carers, which promises to double the amount spent on respite care over two years. Chris Evans of the MS Society, who has responsibility for the charity’s four respite centres, said that any new investment in respite care was always welcome but also urged caution.
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Jun 12th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
Citing faulty implementation of Medicare’s competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, and supplies (DMEPOS), the American Association for Homecare filed a federal lawsuit on June 9 seeking to stop the controversial bidding program. The program affects medical equipment and services used by Medicare beneficiaries in the home including oxygen therapy, hospital beds, and power wheelchairs.
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Jun 10th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
When people hear about elder abuse in nursing homes, they usually think of staff members victimizing residents. However, research by Cornell University faculty members suggests that a more prevalent and serious problem may be aggression and violence that occurs between residents themselves.
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Jun 10th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
Carers across the country - who tirelessly devote their time, effort and energy to looking after a loved one - could be putting their own health at risk by ignoring symptoms or not finding the time to visit their own GP for help and advice, a survey has found.
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Jun 10th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
Yesterday, nearly one-third of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives urged a one-year delay in the controversial and flawed “competitive bidding” program for home medical equipment in Medicare. Two letters signed by 132 members of Congress urge the leaders of the Ways and Means Committee and its subcommittee on health to “delay implementation of this program until outstanding issues can be resolved.
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Jun 10th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
According to a new study, knowledge of potentially toxic household substances among primary caregivers for young children is alarmingly poor. The results show that less than one-third of primary caregivers for children under the age of six could correctly estimate the toxicity of household poisons. The study was presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s 2008 Annual Meeting.Led by Rika N. O’Malley, M.
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Jun 10th 2008Drug InformationCaregivers
The Government’s 2006 White Paper ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Say’ included a committment to a New Deal for Carers. Today will see the release of a national strategy for carers - a revision of the Prime Minister’s 1999 Carers Strategy. The strategy will cover areas of Government responsibility that impact on carers, including income, employment, health and social services and equalities (including equality of opportunity).
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