Dla/ca

Errata

This should shed some light on changes in care: collaborative working between primary care and others. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/304139/Transforming_primary_care.pdf

Poppie68

Well it seems I'm very lucky to have such a progressive GP, our practice offer excellent care and seem to go over and beyond their remit.

benniebert

tomtontom wrote: »

The guidance from the CCG in effect explains how to complete the review with least effort - weight, BP, "advice given" etc.

Ahhhh now the penny has dropped. Yes I get that every 12 months + stop smoking, your type 1 levels are high blah blah blah.


Now if that is what the make up of a care plan is then yes I am being cared for - good - problem resolved.


I wish that other poster had have explained it like you have, instead, they gave misleading advice making me believe that the GP reviews the drugs, BP, blood results as well as going into great detail about the problems I am having with my health conditions and what help I should be getting for them.


My GP doesn't know a thing about my life - he knows what conditions I have, but not the faintest of how I have to cope with them. But to be honest he is there to treat the medical issues, not the social problems.

benniebert

Poppie68 wrote: »

Well it seems I'm very lucky to have such a progressive GP, our practice offer excellent care and seem to go over and beyond their remit.

1 in a million I would say or they are chasing every penny that is available for the extra work load.
Or maybe there are too many GP's in the practice for the number of patients - so they must be given something to do?
Or maybe there are more patients pegging it than there are being born?

benniebert

Errata wrote: »

This should shed some light on changes in care: collaborative working between primary care and others. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/304139/Transforming_primary_care.pdf

I appreciate you putting that link up, but let's be honest I wonder how many GP's are actually implementing all of that?


It is a complete and utter joke, meant to make you feel better than you are - it lifts your spirits for a short while until you realise that it is another political pipe dream.
It will never happen - cost too much money and where are all of these extra hours needed going to come from - the current GPs?
BH it's hard enough to see one nowadays, and if you are lucky to get an appointment it is strictly limited to 10mins - there is a sign up in my surgery - 'Only one medical issue can be discussed at each appointment'.


Sorry good sound bite but never will happen - heard it all before with 'Community Care' taking over from overworked hospital staff.

50Twuncle

Isn't this getting away from my original query - the issue of whether the government are planning on disposing of CA/DLA ?
I have also realised that if they do stop CA - My wife (and many other carers) will not only lose CA but also their state pension will be reduced - due to CA paying NI contributions !!

Poppie68

benniebert wrote: »

Ahhhh now the penny has dropped. Yes I get that every 12 months + stop smoking, your type 1 levels are high blah blah blah.


Now if that is what the make up of a care plan is then yes I am being cared for - good - problem resolved.


I wish that other poster had have explained it like you have, instead, they gave misleading advice making me believe that the GP reviews the drugs, BP, blood results as well as going into great detail about the problems I am having with my health conditions and what help I should be getting for them.


My GP doesn't know a thing about my life - he knows what conditions I have, but not the faintest of how I have to cope with them. But to be honest he is there to treat the medical issues, not the social problems.[/QUOTE.






You still don't understand what a Care Plan is do you?
It's not about reviewing your meds or checking your blood pressure etc..
Care Plans record nok details, carers details, it asks the question 'Do you want resuscitationg or not'? Do you use a wheelchair etc? all this information could also be helpful when a GP was called upon by the DWP to give a report to side your claim for PIP.
Anyway Andy you crack on with your quest for total ignorance it is highly amusing!

FBaby

You do have issues with DLA being used in a certain way and it's quite obvious how bitter you are.

Oh give it up with the 'you're bitter'. I'm not bitter, in anyway, I just don't agree with how DLA/CA is being administered. As I've said many times (but of course you refuse to read that part), I don't want either to be abolished, I want it to be better distributed. It's a belief, just as I'm sure you have views on how other budgets are being spent which I'm sure as nothing to do with you being bitter!

Densol, I'm sorry if I come across as challenging you. I appreciate you have experienced some trauma before, but I read your previous posts and I have to say that I did wonder how you are managing to spend 16 hours on your business whilst providing 35 hours care to your teenage son in addition to the normal care you would provide to him regardless of his disability.

Maybe your circumstances are that indeed, you are managing to do the above, but I can't help wonder how many parents claim to provide 35 hours care to their children in addition to the normal care they would provide to them, especially when they are in full-time education.

And no, it is not bitterness, no issue at all with those who do, but considering the 35 hours critieria is something that is never ever checked, I can't help wonder how many people claim the benefit and don't fulfill the criteria.

Indie_Kid

FBaby wrote: »

I have to say that I did wonder how you are managing to spend 16 hours on your business whilst providing 35 hours care to your teenage son in addition to the normal care you would provide to him regardless of his disability.

Night time care, ferrying your child to medical appointments, having to give up work because your child gets ill too often? I have a friend who claims (or did) for her 5 year son. He has a lot of complex medical problems, which means she has to constantly take time off work to take him to medical appointments. She has to constantly take time off work because of him constantly being ill. He's severely deaf, partially sighted, has learning disabilities and has a whole host of other medical problems. She only works term time due to his disabilities. She can't put him in child care due to his complex needs.

I take it you have no idea what it's like having to look after a disabled child?

benniebert

Poppie68 wrote: »

OK you say that, but it does appear so far from the number of comments from other posters that you are the only one who is saying that that is what happens.
TomTonTom's post above explains the situation as it really is (not what is in the rule book). In the reality of life, these so called plans are NOT being carried out - you are the odd one out it appears.
And to be honest, what the BH has it got to do with anybody including my GP if I want to be left to die? Social problems are for Social Workers - Medical problems are for medics.
If I wanted a wheelchair, I would rent one from the Red Cross which I do regularly.