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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is expected to outline changes to self-funder payments next week. While Alzheimer Scotland said it was just “the beginning of a process’ that recognises the inequity faced by those with advanced dementia, Jim Pearson, Director of Policy and Research for the charity, said it was a sign that the government “is listening.” He said: “It is a step forward in that direction, it’s really positive. “Ordinarily there is an annual uprate but this time they have made what is proportionately a significantly greater increase that it would normally be. ...

Scots care home staff say they felt blamed for Covid deaths CARE home residents died ‘terrible deaths’ in the first wave of the pandemic, according to staff, when PPE was ‘non-existent’ and medical advice was ‘contradictory’ or simply not available. Frontline staff have shared harrowing accounts of working conditions for a major report that calls for systematic change within the sector and accuses the Scottish and UK governments of consistently “shifting the blame” for deaths onto care homes. The report, by the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) said the pandemic ...