A union is calling for Scotland’s “broken” care system to be transformed into a national care service after the coronavirus pandemic. Unison said adult social care has been the “forgotten
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The care sector should adopt a similar system to the NHS to prevent more deaths, Unison said, as it published a new strategy. The UK’s largest trade union said the
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More than eight in 10 people believe social care should be treated with the same importance as the NHS, research suggests. And 62% said they now have a higher opinion
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Care home staff are increasingly struggling with mental health problems and feeling burnt out, anxious and guilty as they work through the coronavirus pandemic, a charity has warned. Calls to
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Social services directors have expressed concerns amid the coronavirus crisis, as less than one in 20 believe they have enough money to meet their statutory duties this year, according to
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Workers in care homes and other parts of the sector are being forced to take unpaid leave or survive on statutory sick pay (SSP) if they have to self-isolate or
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Around a quarter of social services directors said hospital patients were discharged to places without enough protective equipment or where they could not self-isolate amid the coronavirus pandemic, a survey
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Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has apologised to a woman who said navigating the social care system with her mother was the most difficult thing she has ever faced in
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The “unfair and woefully out of date” social care sector must be radically reformed but not by making it free for all as part of the NHS, a think tank
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The family of a disabled man say they have been “completely forgotten about” after they were told to source protective equipment for his NHS-funded carers themselves – despite inflated prices
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