Minister wants Dignity debate for caring for the elderly
New care services minister Ivan Lewis has said he wants to make dignity of older people one of his top priorities. Speaking at a session on the out of hospitals white paper, he said: ‘I want to make dignity an important theme in my time as a minister. ‘This is not a gimmick; just another initiative. It should be at the heart of what we are doing.
‘I want to stimulate a debate about dignity in older people and the disabled. It has to be integral to how we are seen to support people in the modern world.’
He admitted that last month’s reshuffle had caused some destabilisation, but he said the health service and local government now had to move forward rapidly to make a reality of the white paper.
Mr Lewis said that too often primary care trusts and councils ‘go through the motions’ of setting up partnerships as if just ‘sitting round tables and producing strategy documents’ was enough.
He called for more PCT funding on prevention - such as £25 on griprails in people’s homes which would help prevent falls.
http://www.hsj.co.uk/nav?page=hsj.news.story&resource=5007746
Classic Labour tactic this. Ivan Lewis’s caring, sharing government announces a laudable new spin policy for caring for the elderly and frail. Brilliant
He then lambasts everybody else for not delivering his policy- when it’s his own fault because the Labour govt has not put a single new penny of money into the pot to pay for the new initiative.
Where is the money to pay for the £25 griprails that you mention- let alone the extra nurses that you want to police your dignity policy, Mr Lewis?
Please also read: Friday, April 21, 2006 Chief execs should ‘take the rap’ if elderly failed on dignity and Wednesday, August 17, 2005 False illusions of haute-couture health care
‘I want to stimulate a debate about dignity in older people and the disabled. It has to be integral to how we are seen to support people in the modern world.’
He admitted that last month’s reshuffle had caused some destabilisation, but he said the health service and local government now had to move forward rapidly to make a reality of the white paper.
Mr Lewis said that too often primary care trusts and councils ‘go through the motions’ of setting up partnerships as if just ‘sitting round tables and producing strategy documents’ was enough.
He called for more PCT funding on prevention - such as £25 on griprails in people’s homes which would help prevent falls.
http://www.hsj.co.uk/nav?page=hsj.news.story&resource=5007746
Classic Labour tactic this. Ivan Lewis’s caring, sharing government announces a laudable new spin policy for caring for the elderly and frail. Brilliant
He then lambasts everybody else for not delivering his policy- when it’s his own fault because the Labour govt has not put a single new penny of money into the pot to pay for the new initiative.
Where is the money to pay for the £25 griprails that you mention- let alone the extra nurses that you want to police your dignity policy, Mr Lewis?
Please also read: Friday, April 21, 2006 Chief execs should ‘take the rap’ if elderly failed on dignity and Wednesday, August 17, 2005 False illusions of haute-couture health care
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