Specialist stroke care 'lottery'
A third of stroke patients are still not treated in a specialist unit despite improvements in access, a national audit has shown.
9 May 2007
A third of stroke patients are still not treated in a specialist unit despite improvements in access, a national audit has shown.
A charity for young carers is calling on the government to set up an urgent inquiry into the plight of children caring for disabled relatives. It follows the recent case of Deanne Asamoah - a 13-year-old girl who died from an overdose of morphine. It emerged she had been caring for her terminally ill mother for four years.
Cable welcomes the Lords amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill but warns of difficulties in assessing the capability to work of people with mental conditions.
Burstow calls for the end to the inconsistent provision of services for disabled children and calls for funding to meet the communication needs of disabled children.
A man with severe dyslexia has launched a legal challenge against two High Street banks about the way they communicate with disabled customers. Robert Neil from Norfolk has difficulty understanding written words and figures, and says he has paid thousands of pounds in bank charges. He says he now has a bad credit rating after becoming inadvertently overdrawn.
An overhaul in social care with more state-funded support for the most vulnerable is needed, a survey says. Social care is effectively means-tested in the UK apart from Scotland where personal care is provided free. But a poll of 2,306 found most people were against the current arrangements, although many accepted some individual contribution may be needed.