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• ‘They don’t have time to talk’: residents feel impact of care staffing crisis

  21-08-2022 17:00
  
  Anne Thompson says her husband’s experiences at a Harrogate home left her angry, bitter and in despairStaffing crisis leaves many English care home residents’ basic needs unmet“There is no joy in the air,” said Anne Thompson, describing the impact of the national care staff crisis on her husband’s Harrogate care home. “There’s no sense of companionship.”On a recent visit to see Michael, 80, who used to run a steel fabrication company and loved moun
  
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• Staffing crisis leaves many English care home residents’ basic needs unmet

  21-08-2022 17:00
  
  Vulnerable people left alone in rooms for 24 hours a day and denied showers for a week as number of vacancies grows to 165,000‘They don’t have time to talk’: residents feel impact of care staffing crisisThousands of vulnerable people are suffering inadequate care as severe staffing shortages in previously good care homes push operators to break rules and put residents at risk.A wave of inspections has revealed the human impact of a worsening nationwide staffing crisis, with peo
  
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• ‘We are being abandoned’: when the energy bill goes up by £100,000 a day

  21-08-2022 08:00
  
  If domestic bills are climbing, so too are those of schools, sheltered housing and museums. We speak to the people grappling with the soaring costs of keeping vital services running this winterThe faint worry lines under Oona Goldsworthy’s eyes tell their own story. It has been a gruelling few weeks at the helm of Brunelcare, a charity that provides sheltered housing to 1,400 people and runs seven care homes in Bristol and Somerset. Continue reading...
  
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