Katy employs her own PA, Gemma, through a Direct Payment.
Gemma needs clinical training to manage Katy’s suprapubic catheter safely, something most PAs are never trained for, because no funding route covers it. Without it, Katy ended up in hospital more than once. Katy and Gemma discuss what that meant for her, and why PA training funding needs to change.
We’re asking funders to back clinical skills training for personal assistants.
Because a thousand pounds spent once, at home, is worth far more than the same crisis, over and over, in hospital.
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