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• Liz Truss plan to divert NHS funds to social care is ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’

  24-08-2022 17:06
  
  Health expert says NHS needs money too and diverting promised £13bn is not a sustainable solutionPolitics live: latest updatesLiz Truss would be “robbing Peter to pay Paul” if she diverted £13bn of funding for the NHS to deal with a Covid backlog in social care, experts have said.The Conservative leadership frontrunner told a hustings on Tuesday night that she would spend the £13bn earmarked for the NHS to catch up on delayed treatment after Covid on social care ins
  
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• Half of care workers in England earn less than entry level supermarket roles

  24-08-2022 07:00
  
  MPs tackling crisis of 165,000 staff vacancies hear of managers dreading Aldi opening nearby ‘as I know I will lose staff’Half of care workers employed in independent care homes would earn more if they took an entry level job in a supermarket, according to new research into a staffing crisis that has left thousands of vulnerable people suffering inadequate care.In June nearly 400,000 care staff earned less than the minimum wages paid in most of the major supermarket chains, while a t
  
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