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Those people in the system who do not know that they have hepatitis C are being discovered as and when they return for treatment, or if they die. The number of people concerned is unknown.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2005
If that funding is removed at the end of the three-year funding period and we have no money to employ those neighbourhood wardens, how will we maintain them without there being a direct impact on, and a need to cut, another service in order to obtain funding?
What justification is there for the Skipton Fund rule that states that, if eligible persons die after 5 July 2004, payments will be made to their estate only if the eligible person claimed while they were alive?
There are mixed communities in which people of all ages live; there is one half a mile from here, where some of the flats in a series of blocks are serviced for a level of care. There is a warden, whose job it is to ensure that that service is provided as the need arises.
It has taken a long time to get all those parties around the table, but we are trying to get people to buy into a process rather than simply exclude certain people.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 August 2002