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• When private equity companies prioritise profit over care home residents | Letter

  11-10-2024 18:26
  For these companies, economies of scale, low wages, minimum staffing and cost-cutting are the order of the day, writes Norman EdwardsYour editorial on the failures of the privatisation of care services (7 October) rightly highlights the shameful situation that has developed for older people in residential care. The Nuffield Foundation’s research clearly shows that the increasing outsourcing of this provision is associated with lower standards of care.I have known many care home staff and m
  
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• When care homes just don't care | Letter

  11-10-2024 18:26
  
  Is it right that frail, sick and vulnerable elderly people should be used simply as profit generators for private equity companies, asks Norman EdwardsYour editorial on the failures of the privatisation of care services (7 October) rightly highlights the shameful situation that has developed for older people in residential care. The Nuffield Foundation’s research clearly shows that the increasing outsourcing of this provision is associated with lower standards of care.I have known many car
  
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• Leading UK provider of respite holidays for severely disabled people to close

  11-10-2024 08:00
  
  Revitalise says challenges ‘insurmountable’ due to local authority cuts, higher running costs and fall in donationsBritain’s only specialist respite holiday provider for severely disabled people and their carers is to close because of financial difficulties, in what has been called a bellwether example of the UK’s growing social care crisis.Revitalise, a charity that runs unique state-of-the-art respite stays, offering 24-hour care at two specially adapted hotels, said lo
  
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