Barbara Windsor, 82, writes open letter to Boris Johnson urging him to tackle UK's dementia care scandal as she continues her Alzheimer's battle

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... andal.html

I put in a FOI for details of what percentage of applicants had been granted CHC the last 5 years.

The response; '10.46%. The CCG has received 1517 referrals over the past 5 financial years, including non-triggered checkists, of which 151 eligible'

Partially there already : https://www.carersuk.org/forum/specific-disabilities-conditions/mental-health/mental-health-services-under-resourced-yes-suicide-prevention-minister-and-related-reports-covering-the-meltdown-34595 Why not dementia as well ??? Dementia should be part of mental health - it's...

Please support the following Petition, as there's only 133....

Petition

Give Mental Health it’s own Department & Cabinet Position within Government.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/266815

Exclusive: Capital billions promised by ministers fail to reach ‘front line’ Only a fraction of the £2.5bn of capital funding announced and allocated by the government for the NHS since 2017 has actually been released to the service. Research by HSJ suggests less than £100m has been distributed to l...

The online Petition: 'Start a public enquiry into NHS Continuing Healthcare CHC funding is mismanaged by Clinical Commissioning Groups leaving families emotionally and financially devastated when they should be spending quality time with loved ones who, as enshrined in law, should have healthcare fr...

Just heard on the News that Boris Johnson has promised to fix the Social Care system, so that no-one should have to sell their own homes to pay for Care. We'll see.....

With Dementia seemingly/mistakenly classed as 'social care', I came across the below article: "Now the Mail demands our new PM stops this scandalous injustice affecting millions The Mail calls on ministers to end disgraceful neglect of families with dementia A plan to fix the broken care system was ...

Hi there. Please can you support the following Petition:

Stop the rollout of Universal Credit and replace it with a fairer system

https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp ... rer-system

Interlocks with the main GREEN PAPER thread ... from memory , highlights of this Report already posted on there. ( Yep ... page 12 ... 26 May 2019. ) https://www.carersuk.org/forum/support-and-advice/all-about-caring/social-care-funding-green-or-red-herring-paper-various-schemes-and-utter-madness-a...