No real answer to care concern
IT IS with disbelief Stoke-on-Trent City Council can go ahead with these spending cuts.
Firstly, school crossing patrols – heaven forbid if a child is injured through these cuts.
Will our councilors put their hands up and say I'm responsible for that. I doubt it.
The same at St Michael's centre for the elderly. Would they put their hands up again? Of course not.
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In early February I visited a relative at St Michael's. It was the same day my MP Joan Walley was there, which was a surprise as the consultation period finished the day before.
Prior to this I was visiting the same relative when Councillor Adrian Knapper visited. I did manage to ask a few questions. One was can you guarantee the same 24-hour support, in their own home?
I did not really get a straight answer, but there again that's politics.
I am still awaiting a reply from my MP and local councillor to emails about the closure of St Michael's.
A BEARDMORE Baddeley Green
Comments
by mole10
Friday, March 01 2013, 10:04AM
“They won't answer because the correct answer is that they will not provide 24 hour care.
Gwen's job is to tell us that 24 hour care will be provided, but she will not say for how long.
That will supposedly, shut jornalists and critics up.
It is impossible to provide that sort of care in the community (cost) and no one provides it either.
Stadium Court is being refurbished right now, and this is nuts to anyone with a passing interest.
What is the difference in care between St. Michaels and Stadium Court?
We have an unfolding crisis in care in this City and it will only be managed by not caring.
By that, I mean by abandoning a type of care that is desperate between hospital (or a fall) and the community.
We know this Council and Private enterprises deliver care in our communities.
We know that. We aren't stupid.
The benchmark is 30-35 elderly people receiving 24/7 care at any one time.
A failure of this will be proof that the scrutiny committee were lied to by senior Ofiicers and the Labour Group when they put down all critics by offering a cheaper and more cost effective service in the community.
impossible.”