recruitment of care staff improved during the lockdowns, absence because of sickness has doubled and staff vacancies are now rising steadily, with existing staff exhausted and much better pay on offer elsewhere. how many sicknesses have we had today? the doctor who runs this care company also worked on hospital wards helping to discharge patients during the pandemic. with such a shortage of care staff in the community, he worries about the knock on effect on the nhs. we normally are having to turn down eight new patients a day because we don t have the capacity of staff to be able to help them. for us to be in this position before the winter, before the christmas period, is terrifying. so looking after patients now is hard. can you imagine when the winter comes, when the cold weather comes, people will become more unwell? the government says it is running regular recruitment campaigns and is putting an extra £500 million into training and developing the skills of care staff. alison ho
thank you for your messages, i ll just read one which is from simon who says he is in the north of england, saying, this has been ongoing for years now but it is worse put it as a family, we have been failed by four successive residential care placements and several local authority social services departments and failed by central government. i am services departments and failed by central government. iam now services departments and failed by central government. i am now caring 24/7 for my disabled brother who is deaf, blind, autistic, epileptic and has complex multiple disabilities, and i m also caring for my frail 92 year old mother in her home, having had to abandon my home and job on the other side of the country to do so. we have no support and we having to contemplate moving house to be in a different local authority area to try and get some support. hillary says there is a crisis in the number of care workers in the uk because as a society we do not value the work they do for
as britain s biggest commercial port, felixstowe struggles with a backlog of shipping containers. a crisis in care a shortfall of more than 100,000 workers means people are waiting longer for care, and the number of vacanices is still rising. of vacancies is still rising. violent clashes between travelling fans and police overshadow england s 1 all draw with hungary at wembley. good morning. england drew1 all with hungary in their world cup qualifier at wembley, but the match was marred by clashes between visiting fans and police. elsewhere, scotland narrowly beat the faroe islands, but northern ireland lost to bulgaria, ending their faint hopes of qualifying. joe wilson reports. england versus hungary at wembley.
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a shortfall of more than 100,000 workers means people are waiting longer for care, and the number of vacancies is still rising. are they affecting the care of you or your relatives? if you work in the sector, how are these shortages impacting on you trying to do your job on a daily basis? let me know and give us your experience, we will feed it into the conversation. you can e mail me or message me on twitter or instagram. violent clashes between travelling fans and police overshadow england s 1 1 draw with hungary at wembley. why does a man living in blackpool died 27 years before a man living in chelsea? parts of the north of england saw a fall in life expectancy before the pandemic. also coming up this hour, the finalfrontier. william shatner is to boldy go where no 90 year old man has gone before, as he becomes the oldest person to travel to the edge of space.