A university-developed alert system, designed to assess the needs of people caring for terminally ill loved ones, has featured prominently in the recently published National Institute for Health Research Better
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The delay in implementing the cap on care costs is “disappointing” and the Government should draw up a clear timetable for putting it in place to prevent people facing unlimited
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A Government failure to exempt individual family carers in receipt of carer’s allowance from the benefit cap amounts to “objectively unjustifiable indirect discrimination” and is not lawful, a High Court
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Unpaid carers are saving the taxpayer £132 billion a year thanks partly to a “dramatic rise” in the hours they work, a new report claims. A rise in the cost
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Thousands of siblings of disabled children are often overlooked with their needs coming second to those of the disabled child, according to new research. Siblings of disabled children across the
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The ‘Here for Carers’ is a Wales-wide campaign launched by Carers Trust Wales, Community Pharmacy Wales and Public Health Wales which will run throughout October and is aimed at raising
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People need to “wake up” to the future care needs of their parents and discuss the issue now, the head of a charity has said. Gail Scott-Spicer, chief executive of
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Nearly four out of 10 carers spend more than 100 hours a week looking after their loved one, leaving some feeling isolated and lacking practical help, a major poll has
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Thousands of people with caring responsibilities are missing out on credits they are eligible for which could boost their pension by hundreds of pounds a year. Currently, only an estimated
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Unpaid carers to people with terminal cancer are providing health and social care worth £219 million each year – but health experts have warned that the Government is going to
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