Saturday 5 September 2015

More feedback on the benefit cuts awareness session.






About the presentation, handouts and feedbacks.
Those of you who were in last year’s 3rd year class at the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall, students who have missed out on the start of the presentation on Thursday 3rd September 2015. I have put the presentation on this website again plus there is feedback from the rest of the students in your class and I did a session each for last year’s first and second year that will be now 2nd and 3rd I would be grateful if you can share all the feedback I put on here thank you with Learning Disability nurses students and trained.

I know that you have added your feedback on what I said on the presentation but please feedback to me on what you are now catching up on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you. My website sararvealed.blogspot.com/ the handouts are on this website.

This presentation is also written for other Learning Disability nurses students or trained Learning Disability nurses , I would also be very grateful if you would share the feedback with others who are in the same line of work as you to learn off one another whether for those of you that are students or trained.  If you can please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.

  I do agree that there wasn't any time for me to teach you all that I wanted to teach you.
 These handouts are on this website for all Learning Disability nurses student and trained to share.
 There’s not enough time in these sessions to do the job how I want to, meaning read through the presentation and get you all into groups.

 As for those of you who were late, I understand you have others things to do.  The reasons why I write a lot my website for you guys to catch like there being very little time in teaching session. 

I will start writing in the future many exercises for you to work in your time, then maybe if there’s more than one of you, you can work, learn together, off each other as well as off myself. 

 In future I will do other sessions not just the benefits so if you ever are at my session, I will always have them on my website so you can catch with work I didn’t have time to. If you haven’t been to my future sessions you can see ones I have done with the session themselves and handouts.




Waiting for the appeals.
How long?
        Appeals could take up to a year or two.
        If you have access online a lot please check every now and then to see if the information I teach like for example to find out whether or not people can appeal still if they have their benefits cut, please try to keep yourself up to date with these things when you time to do so.
        Some people have said that the government have said they are thinking about stopping appeals, it may or may not be true, they may have stopped them now or will be in the future so try to keep up with what’s going on as much as you can.

         Most people take longer.
        Some take longer than others.


The wait depends on.
        Peoples’ issues
        On people’s Disabilities and Health Problems.

The waiting time is a big risk to peoples’ health.

        People with disabilities and health problems are more sensitive than other people.
        People worry about owing to people and services money.
        These worries and stresses put people at risk of taking their own lives.
        Most people have taken overdoses.
        Just to let you know that there are some people who do pull through.
        Not all GPs can check peoples’ health while people are waiting for their appeal.
        People should have their health checks even more so while going through appeals but there’s not always the funding and time according to the system.
        People are in risk of being more stressed hungry or and going into debt.
        The food banks can only give people so much food.
        A lot of people feel embarrassed by having to have free food.
        Most people live on their own and they have very little support even harder if their benefits are cut or and stopped.
        People are in risk of losing their homes while their benefits are cut or stopped.
        The government has been known to cut and stop people's’ money with or without a reason just to save money.
        Altos and DWP have signed people off fit for work when people haven’t been fit for work and also without support.
        Just to let you know that not all people lose their lives over this.
        As strange it sounds most people lose their lives because the stress is just far too much.
.  Anxiety and Depression is more of serious health problems than that what it looks like and the stress of everyday life is to blame for it.


Today.

        Here’s my website address to study the handouts to today’s session or and anything else you may find useful to learn off my website sararevealed.blogspot.com/
        Here is my email address sarajgorman@gmail.com
        ATOS KILLERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3mGZZ4TmEGA


                         http://www.focusondisability.org.uk/brates-1.html


                 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/27/fit-for-work-government-figures-seven-people-who-died_n_8047968.html Here is proof those who have died.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/woman-whose-amnesia-makes-her-think-every-day-is-15-october-2014-declared-fit-to-work-by-dwp-10493269.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-says-iain-duncan-6332712
                 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/09/04/deaf-benefit-claimant-sanctioned_n_8089530.html


         http://samedifference1.com/2015/09/25/a-lose-lose-situation-the-dwps-catch-22/

         Please tell me at least three things you have learned to today or email me to feedback.
        Please enjoy any other session you may have today.
        Please have a safe journey home.
        Bye for now.




As for personal budgets here’s exercise for you.
·       Remember what I said about checking what information is in and out of date.
·       Check the updates with the benefit system online 2015 – 2016.
·       On the some reports they may have at least rough budgets what people are getting different benefits.
·       Check up what the difference in food prices in shops by where you live and even online.

·       Which is the cheapest healthy food or unhealthy food, is it affordable to what people are getting on benefits when they have bills, even council taxi to pay, support worker/carer and etc to pay? 


About the presentation, handouts and feedbacks.
Those of you who were in last year’s 3rd year class at the University Of Wolverhampton Walsall, students who have missed out on the start of the presentation on Thursday 3rd September 2015. I have coped the presentation this website again plus there is feedback from the rest of the students in your class and I did a session each for last year’s first and second that will be now 2nd and 3rd I would be grateful if you can share all the feedback I put on here thank you. I know that you added feedback on what you saw when you turned for the presentation but please feedback to me on what you now catch on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you. My website sararvealed.blogspot.com/ the handouts are on this website.
This presentation is also written for other Learning Disability nurses student or trained, I would also be very grateful for you feedback if possible to give you a chance to share feedback with others who do the same kind of work as you and if you can please feedback to me on sarajgorman@gmail.com thank you.
  Sara’s feedback to your feedback.
Introduction the feedback.
Just to let you know as strange as it may sound that these benefit cuts have a huge affect on people's’ health, even if they didn’t have Anxiety and Depression before hand, it can happen if people have their benefits cut because people worry how long it’s going to go on for and what is going to happen to them which is when the depression can kick to a point they feel they no use to themselves or anyone and life is not worth living, which is a huge risk because many people worry that they are going to be homeless in fact many people sadly are already through these benefit cut and the bedroom taxi, which that is something can look up online and learn about.


As for the risks, it’s a risk to peoples’ health and safety mainly when they have disabilities and health problems anyway which is really important you nurse keep an eye on their health, like said in the presentations all GPs can or even won’t. The worry is in fact mainly is with Depression is that there are so many people suffering in silent due to the lack help they are getting from services due to the cuts. Saying there is one service that has their work cut out that is https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/ they are trained to help with these peoples’ problems but not the stress that these problems put on them which affects their health. https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/


Example of proof if your patient is in any health and safety risk by services or force into situations not in their limits or and needs.
The best job you can do guys is keep an eye on their health the best you can. If they are going through anything that affects their health or a service or even the GPs isn’t giving them the help they need and their health and safety is at risk you need to put something in writing for proof if your management lets you.

Limits of what we can do.
 For example: if they are forced into work they can’t manage without support. As for employment that doesn’t affect a person’s disability and health problem, unless we can’t move and can’t do anything for ourselves at all there’s no reasons for not choosing work that doesn’t affect our disabilities and health problems. Some of us have physical disabilities and others have mental disabilities, some like me have a bit of both.

Disability, health problems and work.
 I wouldn’t be very good with physical and Manual work but I will be alright with say office work and teaching like I am doing now.  Along as long as we are within our limits and we have the right support then we shouldn’t be a danger to ourselves and others.

Health.
Most GP surgeries do health checks and others don’t but even ones that do don’t necessary what you call full health checkups, which can vary. Bear in mind that it’s getting with the talk of NHS going private which is hard with a lot of people who are not on much money but it’s twice as worrying and probably harder for people who are vulnerable such people with disabilities and health problems. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-34186624

 For example: I was even finding them checking my weight and not telling me what it is, whether or not I need to anything about it or not. Mind you most people with disabilities and health problems say that the shop just can get they can only afford unhealthy but that can vary so much to the person’s needs and how far they can travel to get to a shop that sells healthy food to a price they can afford.

Everyone who suffers from for example Anxiety and Depression the way they cope with it is different and how it affects them is different. Some people can go from not having any get up and go to needing to always having something on in their lives others are one or other. For me I go both ways.

Myself for example: I don’t only love my job but it gives me something to look forward to and not only something to do. I am a very unhappy person if I don’t have anything to do but do have times I can’t bothered with much either, that mostly when I have times things are bothering me.
Those of you who have read my website before may have read me saying that Anxiety and Depression is a feeling of mood and sadness whether have a reason to or not. For me to have something positive in my life can stop from taking the negative that’s inside me out on others.
I have had my fair share down points when I was very young where now I think my word why did I let them bother me so much?

When I was twenty I took an overdose of my epilepsy tablets because I was force to carry taking them when I wasn’t even having seizures.
After I had cancer when I was twenty – three I nearly climbed out the window while I was going through radiography because I was so fed up of been stuck at home.
1997 I had a breakdown over a broken relationship I thought was very serious. Now thank goodness means nothing to me but meant a lot to me at the time. If you read my poems a lot of them will relate that experience.

    Another example of stress: has your patient got an Advocacy?

What is the difference between negotiation and advocacy?

In class, we did an exercise where we had to answer whatever it was advocacy or negotiation for a given situation. I feel this was difficult as I didn’t have all the information about the cases but I was able to understand why situations required different outcomes.

Identify when negation is more approached by negotiation rather than straightforward advocacy? Consider also if a mixture of the two to be used.

  •         It’s a mixture of the two when an electricity company has written to a client to say that he/she owes £250.00, they are on a very low income. The company wants the money in full in seven days. It’s the advocate’s job to find out if the client owes that amount of money. If the client owes that money the advocate should negate installments
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  •         A decision by the DSS to refuse a grant from the Social Fund because there is insufficient money in the local budget. This again could be a mixture of both.  The advocate needs to find out if the client is entitled to the money, if any money in the budget. Negotiate a lower amount. (More money is to come from the budget.)
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  •       A decision is made by the local hospital to put someone on the waiting list to see a consultant. The waiting list is 12 months. (Advocacy) This again is a mixture of both. This will depend on how will the client is.
  •         A refusal by the council housing department to grant a tenant with rent arrears a housing transfer in order to be nearer relatives who provide care and support. This is a mixture of both again. Find out if the client owes money; try to negotiate with the council housing if they can transfer them with a training plan to pay back their arrears. At some point advocacy can only go so far.
It’s people like these people who don’t need to be on benefits who are making it hard for those who do. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-previews/britains-most-shameless-mum-cheryl-6620148#ICID=FB_mirror_main



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