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NHS told to improve care for incurable diseases



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Published Date: 21 August 2008
NHS boards across the country have been told to improve care given to those who cannot be cured of disease.
An Audit Scotland report found that palliative care offered by boards, including NHS Lothian, had to be improved.

The report, released today, found that while NHS Lothian did have a palliative care strategy, it was in need of assessment. Only two boards in the country do not require improvement.

It is understood auditors are happier with palliative care offered by NHS Lothian than some other boards. The report points out NHS Lothian has had strategies in place for a decade, more than five years longer than elsewhere.

Caroline Gardner, deputy auditor general for Scotland, said: "More than 55,000 people die in Scotland each year. Palliative care should be an integral part of the support given to patients and their families and carers.

"In many areas of Scotland the voluntary sector and the health service provide excellent care. But access to good quality palliative care varies across the country."





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  • Last Updated: 21 August 2008 10:49 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Proximaking,

Aberdeen 21/08/2008 12:36:23
This is a no-brainer. Take money from the wasteful NHS and give it to the voluntary sector so they can hire more people. Given the rate the NHS is murdering patients at the least we can do is give some of their money away to those who would look after the dying. Who knows with fewer NHS beds they may be able to kill fewer patients and so set a virtuous circle in motion where we eventually close down the NHS altogether and pay for a voluntary sector that actually gives a damn about patients.
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A. Puschkin,

Edinburgh 21/08/2008 17:21:06
Every elderly or disabled person should have by right a "spokes person" who has the right to insist on effective pain control for their client.

Apart from pain control, people who are suffering require appropriate beds, seating, food and a choice of company/radio programmes etc.

Sitting people around a TV that most do not want and cannot hear is so condescending and inconsiderate and most Residential Homes still practice this.

Also - each client in a Residential Homes should have when required - free physiotherapy.

At the moment it has to be paid for if the Home is private.

People who have paid into the NHS all their lives should have free Physio and Occupational services.

Physios and other therapists can also act as guides to the requirement of extra pain killing medication.

There is so much that could be done just by acting with more consideration.


 

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