tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post5077545896749860565..comments2024-02-01T09:25:16.606+00:00Comments on Bubb's Blog: care consulation - Our Voice !Sir Stephen Bubbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575202213305419556noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1189064357283855936.post-42628667452572077192008-05-16T11:40:00.000+01:002008-05-16T11:40:00.000+01:00The care consultation is a joke. I've met with Phi...The care consultation is a joke. I've met with Phillippa Russell and as soon as I put what Carers want to her, her head went down and she lost all interest.<BR/><BR/>We 24/7 Carers want to be paid for the work we do, not treated as feeble charity cases yet no one is listening to this and it's damn patronising.<BR/><BR/>There is a move to getting telemonitoring into the homes of disabled people (as the recent partnership between Carers UK and Tunstall Monitoring indicates) and what can be seen as a drive to get Carers back into full time employment, notice the stupidity of that logic? We (Carers) already ARE working as any 'paid' carer will tell you. <BR/><BR/>Ivan Lewis isn't listening, Phillippa Russell isn't listening, Carers UK have NEVER listened.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and the constant referral to there being 6 to 7 million Carers is a statistic which CANNOT be proved. There are around 2 million less Carers than this misinformation constantly states.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com