Many 'excluded from social care'
Elderly and disabled people are increasingly relying on family and friends to care for them, inspectors have warned.
10 Jan 2007
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House of Lords, Second Reading on the Concessionary Bus Travel Bill
Lord Bradshaw welcomes this Bill but says issues of how money is awarded locally must be addressed
10 Jan 2007
Government Cannot keep ignoring the problems in Social Care
Commenting on today's Commission for Social Care Inspection report into the state of social care in England 2005/06, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson, Sandra Gidley MP said:
10 Jan 2007
Disabled Person's (Independent Living) Bill Second Reading
Lord Addington, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Disability
10 Jan 2007
Mental Health Bill needs major changes
Unless the Government allows major amendments to be made to the Mental Health Bill it faces serious defeats, warned Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Carlile, who chaired the scrutiny committee which reviewed the 2004 draft bill.
9 Jan 2007
Pc 'fobbed off' over MS diagnosis
A policeman whose hospital doctors failed to tell him he had multiple sclerosis (MS) has received over £10,000 compensation. Sussex Pc Gary Dimmock, 42, was referred by his GP in 1992 with possible MS symptoms, but was not told he had the disease until 2003.
9 Jan 2007