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This is from the Department of Health: As you may know, in 2009 the Government pledged its commitment to creating a more personalised and responsive NHS by nominating 74 Primary Care Trusts in 67 sites across England as provisional pilots for personal health budgets. Of these, 20 sites have been selected to participate in an in-depth study to identify the benefits of personal health budgets for health and the patient groups who will benefit most from them. It is important that the in-depth sites focus on key patient groups so that they can learn from the process and make improvements as they go along. Norfolk County Council is one of the 20 in-depth sites and is focusing on NHS continuing health care, dementia, learning disabilities, mental health (relating to people with dementia) and long term conditions.

Raising consciousness of Norfolk CC’s dilatory policies in (now former) government quarters, I have received a letter in reply from Phil Hope the Minister of State for Care Services. His letter is in response to my request to my (now former) constituency MP, Richard Bacon to pass on my letter which I posted here on 12th February (see the entry for that date). I have highlighted the most important part of Phil Hope’s reply which is in support of my actions. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From Phil Hope MP Minister of State for Care Services Department of Health P000000496990 Richmond House 79 Whitehall London SW1A 2NS Tel: 020 72103000 Richard Bacon MP House of Commons Westminster London SW1A OM - 9 APR 2010 Dear Richard, Thank you for your letter of 26 March enclosing correspondence from your constituent Mr Mike Cox of The Lilting House, Beccles Road, Thurlton NR14 6AJ about the personalisation of social care services in Norfolk. I was sorry to read of

The kiss of my new NHS wheelchair: A piddling little thing you might say. But I'm diabetic and if things got complicated via an infection............ The Culprit: The bad grip on the propelling ring which contributed to the hand slipping on going up a slight slope: The improved spacing of the propelling ring from the wheel on the Red Cross wheelchair I had on loan - don't take any notice of the ricketty fixings, they're only a problem when they came apart in the middle of Tesco's. BRILLIANT DESIGN!!! Mike.

The death of David Gray at the hands of the out of hours doctor Daniel Ubani is scandal enough but far worse (if you can get far worse?) is David’s son Dr Stuart Gray’s revalation that the PCT responsible breached the law and acted illegally. Yet no sanctions have been applied either to the organisation or any individual inside the organisation. It seem then that like QUANGOs (See my attempts to render CPPIH accountable on http://www.ppeyes.org.uk/ppeyesdossier.html between 179 and 292), PCTs are completely unaccountable and can literally ‘get away with murder.’ Where does this leave PCTs in respect of CQC registration? Does this tragedy make a mockery of that? Mike.

Formal complaints now lodged with Norfolk CC, NHS Norfolk (PCT) and Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT. Let's see what they say. Heddwch Mike.