“I’m very happy to announce our first successful year of business has now been completed.

It has been a great learning experience with its challenges, but I’ve had my family, friends and good colleagues alongside me over the past year to overcome them and with their help, I’m looking forward to facing the new challenges ahead.’

Ali Rastgoye – Director of Everycare Hastings

Everycare Hastings recently attended the Senior’s Fair at Sussex College.

We were pleased to be invited to the Seniors fair in Sussex college in Hastings. It was a wonderful event which allowed us to meet many in the local community both carers and those receiving care.

It was also nice to meet Amber Rudd our MP for Hastings and the Mayor of Hastings who both attended the event.

The government has pledged an extra £3.5bn a year in annual funding for primary and community care by 2023/24, as part of the £20.5bn funding increase for the NHS announced earlier this year.

Prime Minister Theresa May said the funding will be used to ensure that more patients are cared for at home and in the community, which will reduce ‘needless’ hospital admissions.

She said: “Too often people end up in hospital not because it’s the best place to meet their needs but because the support that would allow them to be treated or recover in their own home just isn’t available.

“Many of us might assume that hospital is the safest place to be – but in reality many patients would be much better off being cared for in the community. And the longer a patient stays in hospital the more it costs the NHS and the more pressure is put on its hardworking staff. This needs to change.”

The money will help fund 24-hour community-based rapid response teams made up of doctors, nurses and physiotherapists to provide urgent care and support for patients better treated at home than in hospital.

It will also go on assigning healthcare professionals to care homes so they can identify individual residents’ needs to provide tailored care and treatment.

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We are always being told to cut down on sugary and fatty foods but new advice from nutrition experts sees the elderly being told to use cream instead of milk in their coffee and tea, fry instead of grill and stock up on cakes and biscuits.

The British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (Bapen) has issued the advice as part of the UK’s first malnutrition awareness week, which seeks to raise awareness of the ‘hidden’ problem of malnutrition in older people.

One in ten people aged over 65 in the UK, which equates to 1.3m, is malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.

Dr Simon Gabe, president of the British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (Bapen), said: “Malnutrition is a hidden problem in the UK, but awareness, prevention and detection are key to reducing its prevalence. For too long, the public have been given health messages focused on reducing levels of obesity and while obesity is a huge problem, for the malnourished, the best thing to do is ignore these messages entirely and seek professional advice.”

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