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General News
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| OFT gets tough with mobility traders |
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The OFT has taken action against several mobility aids traders, following a market study last year which found some firms were engaged in unfair business practices.
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| 25, 000 to benefit through telecare service |
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Birmingham City Council has launched its large-scale, city-wide telecare service in partnership with Tunstall. The service, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, will benefit up to 25, 000 people over the next three years and marks a significant milestone in how the city council is supporting more adults to remain in their own homes for longer, reducing the need for hands-on home care or a move into residential care.
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| Sir Alex Ferguson opens Disabled Living Centre |
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Manchester United Manager, Sir Alex Ferguson took a break from the stressful world of football to help Disabled Living and Salford City Council launch their new £750, 000 purpose-built, state of the art ‘Disabled Living Centre'.
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| Telehealth and Telecare Concordat launches |
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‘3 million lives' will extend the reach of telehealth and telecare, to improve the lives of many people with long term conditions and social care needs.
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| Incontinence should not be a taboo, says leading urologist |
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A leading urologist has called for the subject of urinary incontinence to be spoken about more openly to stop it being dubbed a ‘taboo'. Emeritus consultant urologist to the North Bristol NHS Trust, Professor Roger Feneley was speaking following the launch of the world's first intelligent catheter leg bag with an electrical pump by UK-based Albert Medical Devices.
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| Millions could be helped with telecare and telehealth |
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Three million lives could be improved across England thanks to new high-tech healthcare. After seeing the technology in practice in Cornwall Care Services Minister Paul Burstow, has pledged to make it available to more people with long term conditions. In order to make this a reality, over the next five years the Department of Health will work with industry, the NHS, social care and professional organisations to bring the benefits of assistive technology such as telehealth and telecare to millions of people with long term conditions.
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| More help for people leaving hospital |
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Housing Minister Grant Shapps has launched a new deal to help older people to continue living comfortably in their own homes - with particular support for those leaving hospital. With nearly one in five of the whole population expected to be aged 65 or over by 2020, Ministers are determined to ensure elderly, vulnerable people get the help they need to live independent lives, and can be safe in the knowledge that they won't get ripped off by dodgy dealers and fraudsters.
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| Telemonitoring to help 20, 000 |
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Health Minister Edwin Poots has launched a remote telemonitoring healthcare system which will be used by up to 20, 000 patients across Northern Ireland. The £18m system will help to improve health outcomes for patients with long-term conditions through better engagement with clinicians and enhanced self-management. The contract has been led by the European Centre for Connected Health (part of Northern Ireland’s Public Health Agency) who worked in partnership with, and on behalf of, the five Health and Social Care Trusts.
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| Winter surge for online trusted health information |
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There has been a record surge in people going online for trusted health information and advice over the winter period, according to new figures from NHS Choices and NHS Direct. Daily visits to the NHS Choices website from October to the end of December were up 56 per cent compared to the same time last year, despite lower levels of flu so far this year. This equates to 133, 000 more visits a day this year (368, 000), in contrast with the same period in 2010, in which there were 235, 000 visits a day.
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| Shortfall in care home fees cause concern |
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Shortfall in care home fees cause concernThe fees paid by local councils to care home providers no longer cover the costs of meeting basic standards of care set by the official regulator in England, according to a new report published by Bupa. In the report ‘A Fair Deal', analysis shows care home fees paid by councils have fallen by 3.9% in real terms over the last two years, hitting providers at the same time that care homes have been facing large increases in their main costs - utilities, people, and food - and compounding the long-standing problem of chronic under-funding in the sector.
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| Projects scoop £100, 000 funding for independent living |
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Three innovative small companies have each been awarded government contracts worth £100, 000 to develop new services that aim to help older adults live independently for longer through adopting better approaches to food and nutrition. The awards follow the companies' success in the ‘Independence Matters – Home and Away' competition for development contracts, a joint programme between the Technology Strategy Board and the Design Council. The contracts, awarded through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), will enable the three companies to work with designers to develop human-centred service solutions that help to ensure the independence of adults in older age, and which are ready to be scaled-up and rolled out to the commercial market.
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| New coalition for MS in the workplace |
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The Employers' Forum on Disability has joins leading organisations to launch new coalition addressing the needs of people with multiple sclerosis in the workplace. Business and health leaders have joined forces to announce the formation of the ms&work coalition, the first group of its kind to address the needs of people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in the workplace across Europe. The coalition, an alliance of Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD), Merck Serono; a leading healthcare company, Microsoft Corp and the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) was announced at the 5th Joint Triennial Congress of ECTRIMS and ACTRIMS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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