Social care is due to receive only a small part of the government’s new £36 billion package compared with the health serviceAn exodus of social care staff to better-paid jobs in supermarkets, retail and hospitality is fuelling the worst NHS crisis since records began. Leading doctors told The Times that the “frightening” situation in A&Es was now worse than during the Covid peak but said the solution was to “give money to social care — not us”. SponsoredSocial care is due to receive only £5.4 billion of the government’s new £36 billion package for healthcare reform, funded through a rise in national insurance that was introduced this month. Care homes are finding it hard to compete with the likes of supermarkets when it comes to retaining staff TOLGA AKMEN AFP/GETTY IMAGESNHS chiefs warned that the “bottleneck” in hospitals would deteriorate further unless social care capacity was increased so that patients could be safely discharged from wards. Medical organisations said it was vital that carers receive a pay rise

Source: The Times April 23, 2022 09:53 UTC