Category Archives: ELDERLY UK POLICY

Dignity be damned again !

Posted on November 18, 2018 by

Care homes are again in the headlines.     The Daily Mail has once again raised its campaigning banner “Dignity for the Elderly”.  It’s been a very long and wholly ineffective effort.   It started way back in 2010, when … Continue reading →

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TV No Longer Free ? Part Two

Posted on October 21, 2018 by

This follows on from my last post about the BBC reviewing the free TV licenses currently given to all over 75’s. The Beeb is launching a consultation, which means they would like to scrap free licences, but they don’t know … Continue reading →

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TV No Longer Free ?

Posted on October 14, 2018 by

A few years ago the Government quietly passed responsibility for “free TV licenses for over 75’s” over to the BBC.    It was announced in the Chancellor’s budget statement, but attracted little comment.  The Government used to foot the bill … Continue reading →

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Floodgates of Death

Posted on July 22, 2018 by

This post follows from my previous two blogs “National Death Service” and “Polly Toynbee certainty”. It is just a matter of time now before they open the Floodgates of Death.    Legitimise assisted suicide and inadvertently condemn a generation to … Continue reading →

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Polly Toynbee’s Death Bed

Posted on July 15, 2018 by

This post follows on from my blog last week about the “National Death Service”. I wasn’t the only one to take note of the Jones report on early deaths at Gosport Hospital.    Just days after its publication, Polly Toynbee, … Continue reading →

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Bold NHS Chief Executive ?

Posted on May 13, 2018 by

The Government is shortly supposed to be coming up with a Green Paper on Social Care.  The aim of the paper is to resolve the current and future funding crisis in Social Care related to the ever-growing numbers of older … Continue reading →

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Super Delux Pension Supplement.

Posted on March 29, 2018 by

This is a continuation of my blogs on welfare benefits.   It directly follows on from the last post. ( You can see all the posts on this subject by clicking on “Welfare Benefits “ in the Tag Cloud )  The Last … Continue reading →

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