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How should we fund Social Care?

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'd also be happy to pay a small fee for a GP appointment, but I think the effect would be to put many people off getting problems looked at early.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    JennyJ said:
    I'd also be happy to pay a small fee for a GP appointment, but I think the effect would be to put many people off getting problems looked at early.

    I agree that's a problem but as it's difficult to get an appointment anyway it's purely hypothetical round here! :/
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Just back from hospital

    They wanted to move G to a care home where I'd not be allowed to visit for 14 days. 

    As he's not likely to live for much longer, if at all. I've agreed / been forced, to have him home again.

    The nearest alternative bed is in Bristol which is only 125 miles away.

    They can set up a "care package " with home visits: they take 4 weeks to set up. !
    Devon.
  • Well they absolutely can’t send him home until they’ve done that. 🤗 

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    he might be home tomorrow
    Devon.
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    edited September 2021
    Sorry to hear that, @Hosafan1, what a worrying time. Good luck with sorting the "care package"... they repeatedly told me that although Mum had been allocated 4 30-min visits / day by 2 people (via palliative team), none of the agencies would take it on board as she lived in a village, and they couldn't get staff to come out for such a short visit. Honestly, I did end up saying to them that she was only 10 or so miles from a town, not bloody Timbucktu... It was farcical. I eventually negotiated that they came out for longer, and Mum paid for the other visits... (edit: Mum could afford it, and we didn't regret paying, it was just that, since she was deemed 'palliative' they then give you a certain amount of care non-means tested)
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @Hostafan1 are there no hospice possibilities?
  • ColinAColinA Posts: 392
    Stop MP's using private jets to travel around the country
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fire said:
    @Hostafan1 are there no hospice possibilities?
    He's not near enough death to be given a bed
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Well they absolutely can’t send him home until they’ve done that. 🤗 
    Welcome to Devon care,  you remember the time I had that was 6 years ago, seems it’s not changed.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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