It is not a question just of resources or laws but, as has been highlighted, the failure to identify people at risk when all the red alerts were in hindsight flashing.
Our priority has always been to support people to make sure they can live independently for longer, and with dignity. But this requires funding.
With many questioning the future of mass tourism on the Adriatic Sea, the EU candidate country of 4.5 million has started promoting itself as a dental treatment destination.
The larger threat posed by American medicine is that more and more of us are being drawn into the system not because of an epidemic of disease, but because of an epidemic of diagnoses. But the real problem with the epidemic of diagnoses is that it leads to an epidemic of treatments.
Disabled children who do not live at home should have the right to an advocate who can speak on their behalf, according to the Children’s Society.
“Sadly the government is happy with an administered chemical cosh of drugs for the alarming increases in the number of children suffering from mental illness. “Their draconian approach risks more sufferers not coming forward and risking their conditions deteriorating under the clinical radar.”
The UK will be among the first 50 or so countries to sign a new United Nations convention giving greater rights and freedoms to disabled people. “The convention recognises that disability is caused by negative attitudes and barriers within society, not impairments, and that disabled people should have the same rights and freedoms as everyone else.”
Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since last July. County health authorities obtained a court order to lock him up as a danger to the public because he failed to take precautions to avoid infecting others.
The government’s Mental Health Bill strikes the “right balance” between patient safeguards and protecting the public, the health secretary has said. “The bill would enable a patient who is detained in hospital to be released under supervised community treatment, enabling some patients to be discharged into the community earlier than would otherwise have been the case.”
Increasing numbers of patients are paying for private “top-up” treatments alongside NHS care, meaning the health service is no longer free, a report by leading doctors warns today. The doctors have written to all three main political parties, and the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, outlining their concerns that the idea of a free health service is a “political mirage”.
