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Conservative, Lord David Prior and Labour’s Lord Ara Darzi are calling for ‘radical streamlining’ of damaging reforms under former health secretary Andrew Lansley.
The government should make social care free to everyone who needs it to take pressure off the NHS, former Labour and Tory health ministers have said.
The Lords have also called for a “radical streamlining” of NHS organisations to roll back the damaging reforms implemented by former health secretary Andrew Lansley. “Abolishing means testing of social care would end the scandal of people with significant care needs facing bills in the hundreds of thousands of pounds for care”, they said.
Cuts to social care funding under the Conservatives have seen the numbers of people receiving state-funded care falling five per cent a year. But it is costing the NHS £3bn a year to care for people in hospital who are fit enough to be sent home but haven’t got sufficient support, and free services for people with “critical” or “substantial” needs would help.
Elderly people in residential accommodation would still be expected to pay their own housing costs if they can afford to, as at present. To read more about this story visit the Independent’s website.
Over 300 organisations got involved in Self Care Week last year with a reach of more than 22 million people, more than a third of England’s population. Dr Ian Banks, Trustee for the Self Care Forum and President of the European Men’s Health Forum, wants your help to make it bigger and better than ever before…
The Self Care Forum launched in 2009 with the aim to support people to take better care of their own health.
This awareness week, organised by the Forum since 2011, is now a well-established initiative used by many local health organisations including Healthwatch, CCGs, surgeries, pharmacies, local authorities and ambulance trusts.
To find out more and join in…check out the Social Care section of the GOV.UK website.
A report finds there is no plan to recruit or retain staff to help in the rapidly growing social care sector.
Social care in England is running as a “Cinderella service” which is undervalued, the National Audit Office (NAO) has said.The Department of Health and Social Care is not doing enough to support the development of a sustainable workforce, a new report into England’s adult social care sector found.
There is a growing demand for care but not enough staff and the number of people with unmet needs is increasing, it added. Recruiting and retaining staff is increasingly difficult, but the department does not have a current workforce strategy, the authors said.
The report looked at Age UK analysis which estimated 12 million people over the age of 65 had some level of unmet care needs in 2016/17. There is also a higher than national average vacancy rate and a growing staff turnover rate. The NAO said workers feel undervalued and there is little opportunity for career progression.
To read more about the report findings please visit the SKY News website.
We are delighted to announce that Everycare UK is to open a new office based in Barnet, London.
The office becomes the third Everycare UK home care operation to operate in the Greater London area and will provide the same excellent level of home care service that Everycare has became well known for.
If you are interested in working for Everycare Barnet then please contact us today.
