NHS on track to improve lives and save big money

IT’S encouraging to see NHS chiefs taking a strong stance against delayed transfers of care.

For far too long, people have suffered unnecessarily as they find themselves trapped in hospital beds through no fault of their own.

The NHS has voiced a commitment to working with trusts and local systems to deliver this target. Now they must act.

Historically, it has been frustrating because there are solutions on offer that have not been taken up on a wider scale.

Anchor’s successful trials offering ‘re-ablement’ beds at a care home in Birmingham, for example, have shown that better alignment of the health and social care sectors can improve lives and save the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds.

We must not forget the bleakness of the NHS winter crisis. Now is the time to put structures in place across health and social care to ensure the system does not fail the people it is meant to serve. THE Honley & Brockholes Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) would like to thank everyone at the Honley Show for their support.

Without the organisers, volunteers and members of the public we could not help those in need at sea, life guards on beaches, local flooding etc.

Also a big thank-you to HB Bearings Ltd for sponsoring the pitches.

Thanks to everyone we made a total of over £425 on the day for RNLI. MAY I through your columns, thank my wonderful wife Angie for her care following my recent fall at home.

Thanks also to friends and neighbours who have sent BREXIT changes.

The labour we get from abroad to harvest our crops which ends up on our supermarket shelves will become a problem.

With the uncertainty of what the Brexit outcome will be, many of our seasonal workers are stopping in Germany and Spain rather than come over here.

The jobs are hard, tedious and not jobs to make fortunes at; some from Britain have tried this type of work but after two days they have had enough.

Many of our citizens are university trained and probably think it is beneath them to have a go at this type of work.

If this problem of not bringing in the harvest when the crops are ready will result in huge wastage and supply in our shops will mean shortages and price increases, yes Brexit could hurt us in our pockets.