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• Care providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospitals

  08-01-2023 19:01
  Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitationCare providers are demanding double the usual fees to look after thousands of people who need to be discharged from hospitals to ease the crisis in the NHS.Care England, which represents the largest private care home providers, said on Sunday it wanted the government to pay them £1,500 a week per person, citing the need to pay care workers more and hire rehabilitation speci
  
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• Sweeping social care reforms can wait – homes need money and workers right now | John Harris

  08-01-2023 14:23
  Hospitals can’t discharge patients because councils don’t have the funds to facilitate care afterwards. It’s a perfect storm of neglectLast Thursday, I spoke to a hospital doctor based in north-east England working in acute medicine, a catch-all term that takes in most conditions that present as emergencies, from heart attacks to kidney failure. I was put in touch with her by EveryDoctor, the advocacy group for medical professionals set up just before the pandemic. “I&rsq
  
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• Three reasons why politicians can’t solve our social care crisis

  08-01-2023 12:30
  Political disagreement about the role of the state, the expense of reform and our unwillingness to confront ageing are at the root of the problemA confidential No 10 memo on (not) reforming social care reads: “The prime minister agreed that this seemed the right course, but noted that careful thought needed to be given to the presentation in order to avoid charges that the government had pulled back from its original commitments on long-term care.”That’s not a recent leak: it w
  
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• Sick man of Europe: why the crisis-ridden NHS is falling apart

  08-01-2023 10:00
  Other countries are looking on appalled as the UK’s failure to reform social care has left its health service struggling to survive It is 6am and a dozen ambulances are waiting to offload their patients, but the local NHS hospital is already full. Every bed in the emergency department is occupied. As well as the patients in ambulances, others lie inside on trolleys in corridors, some even on trolleys in cleared-out cupboards. In the waiting rooms, dozens more are in the long queues still t
  
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