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Care Providers Cancel Council Contracts
Because they can't provide the service at the amount paid to them.
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I think this problem has arisen not least because of the modern insular a broken family unit.
In years gone by families worked together more to keep family together. They looked after the young and the young looked after the old for much longer. It wasn't perfect and probably needed a bit,of help and tweaking but for the most part we all took responsibility for our youngers and elders.
Now we live such insular lives that we palm off our children and old people at the soonest opportunity. Along with the welfare state we expect others to do the job we once did.
Suddenly, with an aging population we find there isn't enough money to pay for everything. Who'd of thought it?
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I think this problem has arisen not least because of the modern insular a broken family unit.
In years gone by families worked together more to keep family together. They looked after the young and the young looked after the old for much longer. It wasn't perfect and probably needed a bit,of help and tweaking but for the most part we all took responsibility for our youngers and elders.
Now we live such insular lives that we palm off our children and old people at the soonest opportunity. Along with the welfare state we expect others to do the job we once did.
Suddenly, with an aging population we find there isn't enough money to pay for everything. Who'd of thought it?
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A lot of the problem is that us 'Baby Boomers' born between the end of WW2 in 1945 and 1960 are now of an age where we are starting to need care.Instead of a Baby Boom we now have a 'Pensioner Boom' and we pensioners are living longer.We no longer 'pop our clogs' at 65 to 70, it's more like 85 to 90!
This coupled with the huge rise in housing cost that means both partners of a couple need to work full time and can't stay home to care for elderly relatives has resulted in the current 'care crisis'.
This coupled with the huge rise in housing cost that means both partners of a couple need to work full time and can't stay home to care for elderly relatives has resulted in the current 'care crisis'.
This is a potentially very serious situation. If the private sector can't provide the care that our old people need, at a cost that will provide a profit, where do we go from here ? The NHS is stretched to breaking point.
A significant factor is the under funding of our care sector, by central government, and also a rapidly ageing population.
Its a problem, we as a nation has to get its head around, and that means finding the money required.
A significant factor is the under funding of our care sector, by central government, and also a rapidly ageing population.
Its a problem, we as a nation has to get its head around, and that means finding the money required.
//A significant factor is the under funding of our care sector, by central government, //
Mikey, Blair and co tried throwing money at the problem and ended up with worse outcomes. It all went on so called tinpot managers and little money filtered down to patients. I worked for Consultants during that time and believe me they were tearing their hair our because these "managers" we're making clinical decisions and sideline clinicians. brown was only happy if he was creating government jobs (I seem to remember there were 100,000 during his first term.
My Mother died last week, having paid for her own care. The Nursing home she was in was 1,240 per week plus exras. Before she went into the Care Home She was spending hundreds a month for care at home.
The NHS needs reform, not money. There is huge waste. I went to a talk by Margaret Hodge at our local literary festival and she talked about her time on the Select Committee and spoke of the huge waste of money. This is just one example.
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Mikey, Blair and co tried throwing money at the problem and ended up with worse outcomes. It all went on so called tinpot managers and little money filtered down to patients. I worked for Consultants during that time and believe me they were tearing their hair our because these "managers" we're making clinical decisions and sideline clinicians. brown was only happy if he was creating government jobs (I seem to remember there were 100,000 during his first term.
My Mother died last week, having paid for her own care. The Nursing home she was in was 1,240 per week plus exras. Before she went into the Care Home She was spending hundreds a month for care at home.
The NHS needs reform, not money. There is huge waste. I went to a talk by Margaret Hodge at our local literary festival and she talked about her time on the Select Committee and spoke of the huge waste of money. This is just one example.
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Thank you Mikey.
Yes I know it's the local council but it all ties together with bed blocking and the state the NHS finances.
By t he way my mother was "ordinary people". Born in a Lancashire Mill town in poverty, worked and saved all her life. She never expected anything the Government, took out a small insurance to go towards funding her care which paid £800 per month and agreed to sell her flat as soon as she entered the care home to fund it. If she had been entitled a "benefit" besides her pension, she wouldn't have claimed it. Very proud lady.
Yes I know it's the local council but it all ties together with bed blocking and the state the NHS finances.
By t he way my mother was "ordinary people". Born in a Lancashire Mill town in poverty, worked and saved all her life. She never expected anything the Government, took out a small insurance to go towards funding her care which paid £800 per month and agreed to sell her flat as soon as she entered the care home to fund it. If she had been entitled a "benefit" besides her pension, she wouldn't have claimed it. Very proud lady.
Thank you Mikey. I will just paste the first paragraph of my tribute to her when the funeral is held. This also shows what a survivor she was.
"John Benjamin and Jane got married in March 1915. Within weeks he had joined the Army and was sent to France with the Royal Artilliary. Jane wouldn't see her husband again until he came home on leave in October 1918. He was due to return to France on 5th
November but he was ill and reported sick. The doctor told him to "Go back to France lad and work it off!" Had he been given a week's sick leave he wouldn't have been sent back because the Armistice was signed 6 days later on the 11th November. Ben died of bronchial pneumonia in a hospital in Ruen"
"John Benjamin and Jane got married in March 1915. Within weeks he had joined the Army and was sent to France with the Royal Artilliary. Jane wouldn't see her husband again until he came home on leave in October 1918. He was due to return to France on 5th
November but he was ill and reported sick. The doctor told him to "Go back to France lad and work it off!" Had he been given a week's sick leave he wouldn't have been sent back because the Armistice was signed 6 days later on the 11th November. Ben died of bronchial pneumonia in a hospital in Ruen"
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