richardr
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Who supplies the remainder of the funding?The volunteer service isn't a registered charity, just part funded by the county council.
Who supplies the remainder of the funding?The volunteer service isn't a registered charity, just part funded by the county council.
What next!!??
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He should have an OT (or similar) assessment to determine the type of care he will need after discharge from hospital, and the hospital should be able to help with regards to who you need to speak to about care, and you then - sorry to say it - chase and chase and chase until you are absolutely sure that everything is in place - morning, afternoon, and evening, and any therapy appointments he needs once he is home. Absolutely DO NOT permit the hospital to discharge without all this in place as it is much more difficult for carers to be added to the rota once he's home than it will be to reduce the number of appointments as he improves. You need confirmation that carers will be there from the time he is home until the time he is well enough not to need them. Say so to those organising the care, and to the hospital. Keep saying it to them until it happens, and explain to your dad that he might have to stay in hospital a little longer so that everything will be in place when he leaves. And do keep the hospital updated with regard to progress - they may not be able to help with organising it, but they will appreciate the information.
The process was tightened up to make sure they went to those who needed them, too many were being given out not only to fraudulent claimants but those whose disability was not serious to merit one.The process itself, which is national, is clearly designed to deter applications.
All very true. However, I am IT literate and have worked with complex work systems for years, and I still struggled to complete their form, complete with requirements for scanned documents reformatted to ludicrously small size, detailed information on the names and job roles of treating clinicians and so on. The important stuff about the nature of the disability was actually pretty straightforward. There is no way my elderly mother in law would have been able to do this herself.The process was tightened up to make sure they went to those who needed them, too many were being given out not only to fraudulent claimants but those whose disability was not serious to merit one.
Disabled drivers and families should remember it doesn't give them the right to park anywhere and the badge is only to be used when the disabled person is in the car, use by anyone in the family as free parking is a very common practice.
So if they leave the car to do the shopping, they have to move the car first?and the badge is only to be used when the disabled person is in the car,
Very clever ;-)So if they leave the car to do the shopping, they have to move the car first?
On the car or the person in it?Parking tickets ahoy if you try!
On the car or the person in it?
If the badge holder is still in the vehicle then there's no need to use the badge.