Personal Health Care Budgets.

Airwave!

I went to a NHS Conference today where the talk was all about about having a personal health care budget and how the first contract had been awarded and on-going tests were in place to prove the worthiness of this new program which was trying to give people what they wanted.

I decided that a blonde 18 year old masseur was more likely to make me feel better but then 18 is a bit near to 17 which got one of our royals and the Italian PM into trouble and I don't know if I could stand all the excitement.............I think I will only end up disappointed?

Should I just not try these new ideas?

8) Its a grin, honest!

joanlawson

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, Airwave. You might be disappointed, but at least you'll be getting something back for all the taxes you've paid. Go for it, I say :!:

What I really want is a luxury holiday somewhere sunny and warm. Is that a reasonable request, do you think? It would certainly make me feel better, so would be cost-effective.

Joan

livinglegend

A fraud perpetrated on the severely disabled and dying by any dreamt up fancy name.

The one blindingly obvious statement is that less people will meet the criteria for the new ‘payment’ than currently do. Marry this to the tightening upwards of local authority eligibility criteria for services and the stricter limits for Employment and Support Allowance which is means-tested and we can see that there will be a group of people who will slip away from ‘benefits and services’ completely.

the government fully knows that they are doing by stigmatising benefit claimants. They are scaring people who are fully entitled out of claiming what they rightfully could receive. That’s a very mean-spirited way of reducing cost. http://fightingmonsters.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/from-dla-to-pip-a-consultation-begins/

AC continues to silently stand aside and thus condone what is being done to it's members.

Joseph 8)

Airwave!

I try to wrap my messages up with a with tongue in cheek humour, but, you lot are spot on with the replies. It would be a brave charity that entered the political den in the UK and stood before our masters and told them they were wrong, they would most likely get eaten alive and spat out into the political wilderness, forever.

Joining together makes some sense, whether the watered down 'joint' communication has any real teeth, I don't know.

The personal budget may work for some but will be strictly defined and controlled and in being so, leaves little personal choice and no freedom to enact it.

8) Its a grin, honest!

livinglegend

delboy wrote:

Have you not seen this Joseph

http://www.arthritiscare.org.uk/forums/living-with-arthritis-forum-f8/fight-the-cuts-hardest-hit-campaign-tell-us-your-story-t22612.html

Its all very nice to shuffle paperwork between charities, but where are AC in the press, on tv and radio to convince the general public that we are being ripped off? Where are the Letters to the Editor or even publishing an article to plead our case?

Joseph 8)

Airwave!

Now, if AC are going to 'stand tall' and be counted, perhaps they should have a 'Letters to the Editor' page and take note of it!

Charities may well have a board of interested people but do they ever listen to the people they are supposed to serve! We may not talk with the 'pro-speak' but we do know what affects us. Or do they just look after their ability to raise funds and survive within the system?


8) Its a grin, honest!

livinglegend

Airwave! wrote:

Now, if AC are going to 'stand tall' and be counted, perhaps they should have a 'Letters to the Editor' page and take note of it!

What I meant, but perhaps it wasn't clear, was that AC as an organisation should be writing letters and sending articles to national/local newspapers on our behalf. Editors will usually take notice of organisations, but not so much of an individual's comments.

AC should have a list of pertinent email addresses to BCC: to, and send out 'letters' and press releases on a regular basis. It costs nothing to send emails, timewise ten minutes about once a month.

Joseph 8)

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Personal Health Budgets was a Labour Government initiative floated at the end of 2009.

RichC

Yep sure was . "shaping the future of care together" .. i attended a consultation meeting in Kent for that particular Green Paper , and in any case Direct Payments are in place for Adult Social Care in Kent and elsewhere ..it's just an extension of an existing idea.

Shaping the Future of Care Together

and have a look at this list of Members of The Disability Benefits Consortium , all of them committed to actively campaign for disability rights.. There is nothing more powerful than a group like this all campaigning in a coordinated way
Disability Benefits Consortium Members

Rich

Airwave!

What happened to the other group, RADAR? In any case, I welcome new proposals and all actions that result, will be welcome. It is very obvious that looking after yourself, if you have a disability, is not made easy for you.

8) Its a grin, honest!