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• Robotic arm may help to rehabilitate chronic stroke victims

  29-10-2018 21:46
  New research finds that robotic arm rehabilitation in chronic stroke patients with aphasia, the loss of ability to understand or express speech, may promote speech and language function recovery.
  
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• Budget pledges on health and social care dismissed as 'sticking plaster'

  29-10-2018 20:49
  Pressure on NHS will continue as social care remains underfunded, campaigners sayHealth experts have said the chancellor’s £20.5bn boost for the NHS in England by 2023 will leave the service still struggling to cope with rising demand for treatment.The pressure on already overloaded A&E and GP services will continue because Philip Hammond gave only an extra £650m to prop up crumbling social care services, it was claimed. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on the Budget 2018: austerity is not over | Editorial

  29-10-2018 20:07
  Austerity has been a self-defeating policy. It is not enough to abandon it in rhetoric, it must be dispensed with in substanceIt was Hyman Minsky, one of the 20th century’s most formidable economic thinkers, who claimed “the game of policy making is rigged. The Prince is constrained by the theory of his intellectuals”. Minsky argued politicians – the Princes in his Hamlet allusion – who believed themselves above influence were, in fact, limited by the beliefs used t
  
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• The Guardian view on the Budget 2018: a chance not taken | Editorial

  29-10-2018 20:07
  Austerity has been a self-defeating policy. It is not enough to abandon it in rhetoric, it must be dispensed with in substanceIt was Hyman Minsky, one of the 20th century’s most formidable economic thinkers, who claimed “the game of policy making is rigged. The Prince is constrained by the theory of his intellectuals”. Minsky argued politicians – the Princes in his Hamlet allusion – who believed themselves above influence were, in fact, limited by the beliefs used t
  
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• The Guardian view on the 2018 budget: austerity is not over | Editorial

  29-10-2018 20:07
  Austerity has been a self-defeating policy. It is not enough to abandon it in rhetoric, it must be dispensed with in substanceIt was Hyman Minsky, one of the 20th century’s most formidable economic thinkers, who claimed “the game of policy making is rigged. The Prince is constrained by the theory of his intellectuals”. Minsky argued politicians – the Princes in his Hamlet allusion – who believed themselves above influence were, in fact, limited by the beliefs used t
  
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• Budget- £650m props up social care but ignores the real problems within the care sector

  29-10-2018 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  In response to Phillip Hammond’s announcement of a further £650m for social care in today’s budget, in addition to the £240m announced last month, Alzheimer’s Society Chief Executive Jeremy Hughes said: “£650m to prop up the broken social care system only just staves off total collapse. It does nothing for people with dementia who are footing the bill themselves, while people with other diseases are getting free support thro
  
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• US hedge fund orders sale of Britain's biggest care home operator

  29-10-2018 15:36
  Four Seasons failed to pay off a portion of debt owed to H/2 Capital PartnersA “for sale” sign has been hoisted over Four Seasons as fears grow for the future of Britain’s biggest care homes operator.The US hedge fund H/2 Capital Partners, which is in effective control of the group, has put Four Seasons up for sale and swept aside the company’s senior management, installing Margaret Ford and Mark Ordan to the board of directors. Continue reading...
  
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• More ‘Outstanding’ care from Home Instead!

  29-10-2018 14:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Care Quality Commission has found the quality of care provided by Comitis L11 trading as Home Instead Senior Care in Brentwood, Essex, to be Outstanding following an inspection in August.
   
  The service is a domiciliary care agency which provides personal care to older adults living in their own homes. There were 80 people using the service when CQC inspected.
   
  Inspectors found staff were caring and compassionate and people were being provided with safe, responsive, caring, effecti
  
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• Experimental vaccine may reduce post-stroke blood clot risk

  29-10-2018 13:40
  An experimental vaccine might one day protect ischemic stroke survivors from developing blood clots and subsequent strokes. The vaccine was found to be as safe and effective as one of the most widely used oral blood thinners currently used to reduce clotting risk.
  
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• Wroxham resident recalls RAF memories at Aviation Museum

  29-10-2018 09:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The team at Overbury House residential home in Wroxham, were delighted to arrange a visit for 97-year old Bob Marshall, a resident at the home, to the City of Norwich Aviation Museum; enabling him to recall personal memories of his time in the Royal Air Force.
   
  Overbury House, which is part of the Healthcare Homes Group, works with residents to provide person-centred activities, and were pleased to be able to arrange the visit for Bob who has many memories of the time he spent in the RAF.&
  
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• Hampshire’s Hartford Care celebrates ‘Good’ rating from CQC

  29-10-2018 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Hampshire-based care provider, Hartford Care, is delighted to announced that Bethel House care home has received an overall ‘Good’ rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).During the inspection in September, the impressive family home was awarded 5 ‘Good’ stars and highly praised for its ‘safe, effective, responsive, caring and well led’ residential, dementia and respite services.The residents, family carers and staff team at the Barton-on-Sea, Beach Aven
  
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• Midlands care home celebrates dementia care award

  29-10-2018 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rachel Kenyon and Tammy Hulley from Adventure with Dementia with Ann Norris (centre).
  Staff at a Midlands care home are celebrating after receiving a prestigious award which recognises the home’s commitment to supporting people with dementia.
   
  Chandos Lodge Residential Home in Hagley, West Midlands, has been presented with a Bronze Award by Adventure with Dementia – an organisation which helps health and social care providers to enhance the lives of people living with dementia.
  
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