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• The Guardian view on the NHS in peril: the risks are multiplying | Editorial

  29-12-2022 19:30
  Rising pressures on staff could further weaken a depleted workforce. The government’s obduracy over pay is irresponsibleHospitals are crammed full of patients, the staffing crisis in adult social care continues to escalate, and alarming numbers of junior doctors report that they are planning to quit their NHS posts to work abroad. The multiple problems confronting the UK’s health and care system are interconnected and have been years in the making. While the pandemic exacerbated many
  
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• Complained about neglect in a care home and faced a visiting ban? This is the new normal | Helen Wildbore

  29-12-2022 13:42
  I have worked in the care sector for 20 years and I have never seen it this bad. Many families are too scared to complainHelen Wildbore is the director of the Relatives & Residents AssociationDementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safetyThe crisis in dementia care reported by the Guardian this week is deeply upsetting. The fact that half of all residential care homes in England inspected this year were rated inadequate or requiring improvement confirms the
  
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