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• Heads up on style in bathroom adaptations from Closomat

  17-06-2018 16:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  How easily can your clients manage going to the toilet on their own?
   
  Being able to do that simple thing is crucial if the client is developing limitations. It is one of the 10 qualifying activities for social care. The bathroom is the top room for adaptation. Latest research also shows minor home intervention adaptations are proven to reduce the need for physical and mental health intervention and/or hospital treatment. There is also evidence that people put off adaptations because they d
  
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• Theresa May's NHS pledge decried as sticking plaster

  17-06-2018 16:04
  Health Foundation says new funding not enough to put right damage of austerity yearsTheresa May’s plans to increase NHS funding by 3.4% is a “sticking plaster” that is insufficient to drive real improvement in the health service, one of the UK’s most influential thinktanks said on Sunday.Reacting to the news of May’s proposed £20bn annual rise in funding over a decade, several organisations suggested it was less than needed to drive improvements, and would rat
  
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• EU nationals fear Brexit will tear carers from their families

  17-06-2018 06:59
  European parents with British children who need full-time care dread being removed from the UK, as time runs out to clarify their statusLife was hard enough for Ivana Bugler before the EU referendum. The 29-year-old Slovakian divides her time between caring for her two autistic sons, aged eight and seven, and her husband Kevin, who struggles to breathe due to the after-effects of radiotherapy.But since June 2016 she has had a new worry: her status in the UK. Next week it will be a year since The
  
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