When you leave Bath RUH, take your ticket to the pay station nearest to where you parked.
- Insert the ticket into the machine and pay the £10
- Return to your car and insert ticket into the exit barrier slot; it will be returned to you and the barrier will rise.
Keep this card and use it every time you visit during the next 5 days.
Do NOT press for another ticket when you enter the car park, simply insert the same ticket as before and it will be returned to you.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
NHS data on prescriptions to be opened up to public
Data on GP prescribing and a range of other subjects will become available to the public over the next two years under the government's Open Data initiative.
The details were included among a range of plans published by the Cabinet Office to correspond with the chancellor's autumn statement on Tuesday. The Health and Social Care Information Centre, the NHS Choices website and data.gov.uk are to publish the data.
Prescribing data, covering the quantity of each type of prescription, is due to be published on NHS Choices by September next year. The Department of Health said it will help patients to make informed choices about their care, although it is also thought that it will support research in analytics, electronic data management and other digital technologies.
Full Article on Guardian
The details were included among a range of plans published by the Cabinet Office to correspond with the chancellor's autumn statement on Tuesday. The Health and Social Care Information Centre, the NHS Choices website and data.gov.uk are to publish the data.
Prescribing data, covering the quantity of each type of prescription, is due to be published on NHS Choices by September next year. The Department of Health said it will help patients to make informed choices about their care, although it is also thought that it will support research in analytics, electronic data management and other digital technologies.
Full Article on Guardian
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Spending on carers has fallen
A YEAR after the Government committed extra funding for the country’s five million unpaid carers, new research has shown that spending on carers by primary care trusts has fallen by £2.4m this year.
In November 2010 the Government allocated an extra £400m over four years to provide support for carers.
Research by The Princess Royal Trust For Carers and Crossroads Care has now established how the PCTs have invested the added funding this year.
Full Article on This is Wiltshire
In November 2010 the Government allocated an extra £400m over four years to provide support for carers.
Research by The Princess Royal Trust For Carers and Crossroads Care has now established how the PCTs have invested the added funding this year.
Full Article on This is Wiltshire
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
News that thousands of disabled people will no longer lose the mobility component of disability living allowance
According to The Times, the Government has announced that it will not go ahead with previous plans to remove the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), which is replacing Disability Living Allowance, from people living in residential care.
The mobility component provides vital support to allow disabled people who live in residential care homes to get out independently by allowing them to meet some of the extra costs of accessing suitable transport or to purchase appropriate mobility aids.
The Low Review, chaired by Lord Low of Dalston CBE, was an independent review into how the personal mobility needs of people living in state-funded residential care are met.
Full Mencap Response
The mobility component provides vital support to allow disabled people who live in residential care homes to get out independently by allowing them to meet some of the extra costs of accessing suitable transport or to purchase appropriate mobility aids.
The Low Review, chaired by Lord Low of Dalston CBE, was an independent review into how the personal mobility needs of people living in state-funded residential care are met.
Full Mencap Response
Monday, 28 November 2011
Government U-turn on scrapping mobility allowance expected
The government looks set to back down from controversial plans to remove up to £50 a week in mobility benefits from disabled people in care homes.
Charities are cautiously optimistic that the government will not now take away the mobility component of disability living allowance from 78,000 residents funded by the NHS or councils as envisaged in the Welfare Reform Bill, which is currently being debated in the House of Lords.
It is thought the government will announce its U-turn next month, though it is uncertain precisely what concessions the government is prepared to make on the mobility component.
Full Article on Community Care
Charities are cautiously optimistic that the government will not now take away the mobility component of disability living allowance from 78,000 residents funded by the NHS or councils as envisaged in the Welfare Reform Bill, which is currently being debated in the House of Lords.
It is thought the government will announce its U-turn next month, though it is uncertain precisely what concessions the government is prepared to make on the mobility component.
Full Article on Community Care
Friday, 25 November 2011
NHS shakeup in danger of harming patients, risk assessments show
The government's shakeup of the NHS has led to a decline in public confidence, "may destabilise existing services" and has raised risks to patient safety and safeguarding children to disturbing levels, the Guardian can reveal.
The risk assessments, which are publicly available, were prepared for the September board meetings of regional strategic health authorities and detail the scale of uncertainties and the chances that they will substantially affect the running of the health service for patients.
They come as the NHS published its "operating framework" in which £1.2bn will be set aside to pay for the government's reforms. Two controversial changes also come into force this year. First is that patient "choice" will be measured by an increasing "number of patients being treated at non-NHS hospitals", which critics say amounts to backdoor privatisation.
Full Article on Guardian Society
The risk assessments, which are publicly available, were prepared for the September board meetings of regional strategic health authorities and detail the scale of uncertainties and the chances that they will substantially affect the running of the health service for patients.
They come as the NHS published its "operating framework" in which £1.2bn will be set aside to pay for the government's reforms. Two controversial changes also come into force this year. First is that patient "choice" will be measured by an increasing "number of patients being treated at non-NHS hospitals", which critics say amounts to backdoor privatisation.
Full Article on Guardian Society
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Burstow toughens requirements on NHS to fund carers' breaks
The government has toughened requirements on the NHS to fund carers' services after admitting funding allocated for the purpose was not being spent as desired.
Primary care trusts will be mandated to publish how much money they are allocating to support carers and transfer these funds to local authorities, while also publishing plans to support carers by next September, under the NHS Operating Framework 2012-13, published today.
They will also have to set out how many breaks the allocated funding could provide for carers.
Full Article on Community Care
Primary care trusts will be mandated to publish how much money they are allocating to support carers and transfer these funds to local authorities, while also publishing plans to support carers by next September, under the NHS Operating Framework 2012-13, published today.
They will also have to set out how many breaks the allocated funding could provide for carers.
Full Article on Community Care
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