Crisis Care :: When you need urgent attention.

Western Australia operate a free Crisis Care telephone information and counselling service for people in crisis needing urgent help.

In Armagh, Care in Crisis have been on the web since 1994 and are currently redeveloping their website.

Naturally the Americans have it well organized such as the  ARCH National Respite Network.

To quote them "In the United States, respite and crisis care services began in the late 1960's. Respite and crisis care services are very new and are growing quite rapidly. There are approximately 10,000 respite and crisis care programs in the U.S., serving an estimated 730,000 families. It is also estimated that there are at least 85,000 families on waiting lists for these services at any given time. The need for respite and crisis care services is expected grow as the number of individuals with disabilities living at home increases, the number of children at risk increases, the number of families in crisis increases, and natural supports, like the extended family, become less available."

But the poor old U.K. seems to be sitting on its hands.... or are we suffering from the Adminisphere which can be defined as "The rarified organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve."

Sometimes medical or dental professionals cannot cope with the demands on their time given the available resources.
(Dentist Dick isn't making enough money so he's going private!!).

Five years ago Prime Minister Blair promised everyone would have access to an NHS dentist by 2001.

A young man in Wales was refused dental treatment and ended up with an emergency tracheotomy - read the full story on BBC News, but things are no better in Scotland a few weeks ago the deputy health minister launched an astonishing attack on a dentist in Stranraer. And a new dentist in rural England from Spain caused huge queues of people wanting to sign up.