The cost of care
Author: Beverley Hopcutt with Hal Bailey
Magazine issue: Autumn 09
Page numbers: 8-10
Date: 31 August 2009
Add to Shopping Basket
Beverley Hopcutt considers how the Motor Neurone Disease Year of Care Pathway will help commissioners ensure interventions will be in place when needed so that the multidisciplinary team can spend more time with clients and plan to manage symptoms effectively. This is challenging but vital because of the rapid progression of the disease and the number of symptoms it can cause. Beverley looks critically at the cost provisions for speech and language therapy for management of communication, dysphagia and sialorrhea. She also interviews Hal Bailey, who has motor neurone disease, to find out how the Year of Care Pathway would have made life easier for him compared with the current system. Beverley then lists 11 other up-to-date resources which are an essential part of the speech and language therapy toolkit when working with people with motor neurone disease.
