Sample Resolution

(Name of group/union/council) notes that:

1. The split between personal and nursing care means that the majority of the care provided to people with forms of dementia or who have had a stroke is judged as personal care and therefore not state funded.
2. The definition of nursing care is artificial and narrow: it only covers the time spent by a registered nurse not the care provided by nursing assistants who provide the majority of care to older people in nursing homes. This counts as personal care and continues to be charged for.
3. That in Scotland the Parliament decided to provide substantial state support for personal care costs. The scheme has been in place since July 2002 and has been succesfully funding care on a far more equitable basis than in the rest of the UK.

We believe

1. All the care needs of older and disabled people should be provided free at the point of use, without the stigma of means testing.
2. All nursing care, whether provided by a registered or non-registered nurse, should be provided on the basis of need and free at the point of use.
3. All personal care should be provided on the basis of need and free at the point of use

We resolve to:

Support the Right to Care campaign by:

1. Writing to our local MPs to urge them to add their support
2. Encouraging our members/congregation (adapt as appropriate) to take part in campaign actions and events in support of trade justice.
3. Write to our national organisation/board/council (adapt as appropriate) to tell them about this resolution, and urge them to pass a similar motion of support/to become a member of the Right to Care campaign

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