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Carers

Family and Paid Carers

NHS NATIONAL CARE SERVICE 

  • Fully funded and free at the point of need National Care Service (NCS). 

  • Free Elder and other age care to be within the NHS, whether in care homes or in your own home (paid and fully trained carers / District Nurses). 
  • No more elder people paying for care.

  • For care homes (all ages) to pay £16 per hour as minimum, from age 16, to paid carers. 

  • Free end of life care on NHS in NHS Hospices or paid carers coming to your home. Perhaps direct employ Marie Curie / Macmillan, and the like, trained nurses. 

  • Charter of Service for residents of care homes. 

  • End of criminal charge of kidnap if next of kin removes elder or younger relative from care home, for home care. 

  • Fully staff and fully fund rehabilitation units in NHS hospitals for patients who cannot yet go to a care home or return to their own homes, with NHS ongoing healthcare. 


COUNCIL PAID CARERS 

  • Charter of Service for council paid carers, who visit your own home. 


What Charter of Service for paid carers in care homes and council employed, would include, from National Pensioners Convention 

  • This Code recognises that certain practices and actions are unacceptable to older people, such as:

  • Being abusive or disrespectful in any way, ignoring people or assuming they cannot do things for themselves

  • Treating older people as objects or speaking about them in their presence as if they were not there

  • Not respecting the need for privacy

  • Not informing older people of what is happening in a way that they can understand

  • Changing the older person’s environment without their permission

  • Intervening or performing care without consent

  • Using unnecessary medication or restraints

  • Failing to take care of an older person’s personal appearance

  • Not allowing older people to speak for themselves, either directly or through the use of a friend, relative or advocate

  • Refusing treatment on the grounds of age

This Code therefore calls for:

  • Respect for individuals to make up their own minds, and for their personal wishes as expressed in ‘living wills’, for implementation when they can no longer express themselves clearly

  • Respect for an individual’s habits, values, particular cultural background and any needs, linguistic or otherwise

  • The use of formal spoken terms of address, unless invited to do otherwise

  • Comfort, consideration, inclusion, participation, stimulation and a sense of purpose in all aspects of care

  • Care to be adapted to the needs of the individual

  • Support for the individual to maintain their hygiene and personal appearance

  • Respect for people’s homes, living space and privacy

  • Concerns to be dealt with thoroughly and the right to complain without fear of retribution

  • The provision of advocacy services where appropriate

  • For council paid carers to end only
    15-minute care visits to people needing care in your own homes. 

  • Care workers to be paid travel time, access to training and an option to choose regular hours. 


FAMILY CARERS 

  • Carer’s Allowance (family unpaid carers) to be same as Unemployment Benefit. 

  • Work towards access to Respite Care to give family carers a rest. 

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