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Weathering the perfect storm
— facing the challenge of maintaining gains for carers against a background of shrinking resources in one area of England | | Author(s) | Tim Anfilogoff |
| Journal title | International Journal of Care and Caring, vol 2, no 1, February 2018 |
| Publisher | Policy Press, February 2018 |
| Pages | pp 125-32 |
| Source | https://doi.org/10.1332/239788217X15090950200723 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Accessibility ; Services ; Health services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Hertfordshire. |
| Annotation | The financial crash of 2008 has led to significant cuts to public sector services in England. The 2017 budget survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) identifies 400,000 'missing users' (calculated from reductions in the numbers of those using social services since 2010), linked to a 26% reduction in funding for local authority provision, and a rise in need. The King's Fund's assessment of the NHS is similarly bleak. Carers UK's latest survey (2017) indicated that 50% of carers thought that lack of support was damaging their physical health, and 78%, their mental well-being. This article outlines the sort of services which could have helped one carer, whose needs were not met until it was too late (and her husband had died). Carers in Hartfordshire can be assisted by services offered via GPs, including: a Carer's Passport; HertsHelp, a single point of access to voluntary and community services; the Community Navigator Service (for those with hearing impairment, for example); Carers Champions in primary care; and carer friendly hospitals. If access to formal care has been reduced, more value must be directed to and placed in a more integrated voluntary and statutory sector 'system'. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-180406206 A |
| Classmark | P6: 5CA: I: L: QAJ: QK6: 8HT |
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