Daughters Fight to Care for their Mothers
Unlock Care Homes has been set up by Amanda and Jane. If you are struggling with care home access, join our group, campaign to make it a legal right for families to have safe access to loved ones. What does safe access look like? See the example of Dawn Bunter, Care Home Manager, Iceni Heights Residential Home
Why did we need to start our Unlock Care Homes campaign? Read how sheer frustration and horror got us here
Amanda Hunter studied Social Policy at Bristol University and has long taken an interest in adult social care. She is a member of the Social Innovators and Disruptors initiative launched by https://ihm.org.uk/ and is passionate about social care reform. Since her own mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2015, Amanda has also become a champion of Alzheimer’s research and dementia advocacy groups. Before the pandemic, she worked as an English teacher and translator.
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Jane Smith worked for over 40 years in NHS hospital pharmacy as Medication Safety Officer and Service Improvement manager.
She led a team in 2007 taking part in the Safer Patients Initiative (SP12). Her work focused on reducing harm from anticoagulants, reducing the incidence of missed doses, increasing the re-use of patients own drugs.
Her team’s work was shortlists for 13 national awards and won Hospital Patient Safety Award, 2016. Her work was recognised by the award of the Fellowship of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2015).
Since retiring in 2019, and before lockdown, Jane spent up to 3 hours a day helping her mum in the care home. During lockdown she trained to become a COVID vaccinator.
Jane is married with a grown up son.
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Jane Saw her mother on Mother’s Day due to a Daily Mail article about her care home experience. A phone call from a journalist made the Windmill Care Home briefly relent
👇The difference family contact makes/best care homes recognise this +enable safe family visits +essential family Carers ❤️MANDATE visits NOW @AdamDPurnell @BunterDawn @donnapierpoint @peppercott @rightsforresid2 @JustinWelby @Bishopviv1 @CharlesWalkerMP @SirGrahamBrady @afneil pic.twitter.com/TaTdJNzHen
— Jane Smith (@judo_jane) March 19, 2021