• Volunteers can’t fix the crisis in social care | Letters

    Volunteers can’t fix the crisis in social care | Letters
    Karen Edmunds and Jol Miskin respond to the government’s plan to use volunteers to plug gaps in social and health care servicesI had to read your article twice to get over the shock of yet another government sticking plaster (Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges, 6 June). I’ve worked in the NHS for 14 years and in the voluntary sector for 24 years before that. Yes, it worked during the pandemic, when a lot of people were furloughed and were moved

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