Scottish Parliament Petition on ABI

Brain IAC have an active petition with the Scottish Parliament Website. It calls on the introduction of a new "Care Category" of Acquired Brain Injury- separate from Mental Health, Physical Disability or Learning Difficulty.
The Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee took evidence from our three BrainIAC witnesses on 9th September 2008 -You can find out about it : Click on LINK HERE.
You can also watch the Committee proceedings on 9th September on Video by CLICKING HERE (The BrainIAC section starts about 1hr 13mins into the 3-hr session!)


Thursday 7 February 2008

What will the petition be about?

Content of the petition

Ideas from the Group on January 25th

Brain Injury should be treated as an independent disability not to come under mental health or physical disability. It should have it’s own category with allocated funding.

All Neurological impairment to come under the same banner ie. Regardless of how the impairment is caused stroke, virus, traumatic injury. Services should be open to all needs.

More Liaison between providers of services including statutory and voluntary sectors. Referring on to appropriate services.

Services to delivery what the clients request not what they choose to provide.

Funding should be allocated to the client for them to decide how this will be spent.

More facilities needed locally that don’t entail a lot of travel to go to meetings etc.

More information to patients in hospitals or care homes.

More local services transport and easier access.

More available funding forgotten at postcodes. People shouldn’t be generalised but seen as individuals, support should be offered to carers.

For all of Britain

Helpful numbers ie Headway

More information in the pack about illnesses that can affect people with brain injury.

1 comment:

susan said...

This looks really good and well worth all the work that went into it. I will put a link to this site on my blog. good luck