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Thousands of patients are being turned away for vital social care every month as staff shortages hit ‘acute’ levels, Sajid Javid was warned last night.
The National Care Forum, which represents companies that provide home helps, said firms had turned down nearly 5,000 requests for help over the past six weeks.
It has joined union Unison to demand the Health Secretary takes urgent action to tackle the ‘recruitment and retention emergency’ in the care sector.
They have written a letter warning of a staffing crisis triggered by ‘chronic underfunding leading to low wages, staff burnout, and mandatory vaccination’.
Thousands of patients are turned away for social care as staff shortages hit 'acute' levels in a crisis triggered by 'low wages, staff burnout, and mandatory vaccination' (stock image)
Shortages are at ‘a magnitude that threaten to overwhelm the sector,’ they say. Both want to see a pay boost to improve recruitment and a retention bonus for those who have ‘gone above and beyond in the delivery of care during the darkest of times’.
They are calling for a funding injection in next week’s Spending Review just to keep services at their current level.
Councillor Sara Pritchard said home helps were ‘exhausted’ and managers ‘suicidal’ in a Facebook video
A care home owner and Conservative councillor has broken down in tears over the ‘utter crisis’ in the sector.
Sara Pritchard, who runs Executive Carers, said home helps were ‘exhausted’ and managers ‘suicidal’.
In a Facebook video, the
