Carers should ‘get flexible hours’ – health secretary
BBC News
The UK faces a “lose-lose situation” unless workers who care for elderly parents are offered flexible working hours, Jeremy Hunt has said.
Fit-to-work assessment tests ‘farcical’, blasts charity
WalesOnline
The test to assess whether disabled or sick people are fit to work is “farcical”, according to Parkinson’s UK, after figures showed 45% of people with four progressive diseases were told they will recover enough to look for work in the future.
Welsh patients forced to move to England to get life-saving cancer drugs
The Telegraph
Cancer patients in England are four times as likely to get new drugs as those living in Wales, leading some to move across the border for life-saving treatment, the government has said.
KPMG report urges radical new look at long-term care
The Guardian – healthcare professionals network
A KPMG report says society must move beyond hospital walls to address healthcare in the 21st century.
Why charities should use different media to reveal the impact they make
The Guardian – voluntary sector network
At the Charity Finance Group’s annual conference charities were advised to tweet about the impact they are having, rather than produce impact reports.
Unique art exhibition by siblings of young patients at Noah’s Ark Hospice in High Barnet goes on display
Hendon & Finchley Times
An exhibition of artwork created by siblings of children with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses has gone on display in North Finchley.
Daniel Day-Lewis threatens ‘armed rebellion’ if hospice does not go ahead
Irish Central
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has refused to green light a proposed hospice backed by Daniel Day-Lewis in his home area of Wicklow.
Don’t fear your local hospice, celebrate it, says Arthur Rank book author
Cambridge News
A new book, Tears, Love, Laughter, by Judith Chisholm celebrates 30 years of Cambridge’s Arthur Rank House hospice.
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