Scottish National Care Service plan backed in expert review
An independent report to the SNP Government says a new structure should be on an equal footing to the NHS in an attempt raise quality .
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A national care service could be set up in Scotland (Image: kwoolhouse)
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TRADE unionists and politicians in Scotland warned today against any attempts to run a National Care Service for profit.
The Independent Review of Adult Social Care released a report today calling for the creation of an NHS-style National Care Service, with chairman Derek Feeley saying that it should be established in Scotland as part of a radical overhaul of the sector.
Mr Feeley recommended the service should be “on an equal footing” to NHS Scotland, improving standards of care, and ensuring enhanced pay, terms and conditions for the social care workforce.
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman called the report “an important step towards the creation of a National Care Service for Scotland,” and said the government would respond at a later date.
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman is expected to outline changes to self-funder payments next week. While Alzheimer Scotland said it was just “the beginning of a process’ that recognises the inequity faced by those with advanced dementia, Jim Pearson, Director of Policy and Research for the charity, said it was a sign that the government “is listening.” He said: “It is a step forward in that direction, it’s really positive. “Ordinarily there is an annual uprate but this time they have made what is proportionately a significantly greater increase that it would normally be. “The communication we have had is that it has been influenced by our Fair Dementia Care campaign and the support of the Herald.
Scots care home staff say they felt blamed for Covid deaths CARE home residents died ‘terrible deaths’ in the first wave of the pandemic, according to staff, when PPE was ‘non-existent’ and medical advice was ‘contradictory’ or simply not available. Frontline staff have shared harrowing accounts of working conditions for a major report that calls for systematic change within the sector and accuses the Scottish and UK governments of consistently “shifting the blame” for deaths onto care homes. The report, by the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) said the pandemic had only re-inforced long-standing problems within social care including working conditions for staff routinely dealing with death and complex, geriatric healthcare.
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