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    Il settore sanitario del Regno Unito è stato definito “assolutamente schifoso” dal capo dell’inchiesta

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    1. Infinite_Society7792 on

      Well she is not wrong is she. Underfunded for decades, reliant on migrant labour because wages are atrocious whilst performing crucial roles. Many care workers poorly treated by their employers. Its a mess.

    2. YOU_CANT_GILD_ME on

      Here’s an easy fix that would greatly help towards fixing social care; have it funded directly by central government.

      The most devious trick the Tories pulled was to devolve financial control to local authorities, and then cut their funding. [And then cutting labour controlled councils even more.](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/21/exclusive-labour-councils-in-england-hit-harder-by-austerity-than-tory-areas)

      And then come election time they campaigned on “vote for us and we’ll restore funding”.

      Councils legally have to fund things like social care. So when their budgets are cut they have to gut many other services to fund social care.

      They literally created a system where they could underfund councils controlled by political opponents, ensuring that any complaints about lack of funding could be dismissed with “that’s a local funding issue”, all the while refusing to give poor councils more funding unless they voted Tory.

      If a council is legally required to fund something, the funding for that should come directly from central government.

    3. AverageOldGuy on

      The reality is that state social care is unaffordable unless we increase revenue through taxation, growth and/or the reclamation of revenue driving assets like electricity, gas, water (after infrastructure repairs) and so on. Of course, the usual suspects extracting profit doesn’t help either, but that’s the reality.

      At the moment it’s held together by cheap labour imported from abroad, which of course creates its own issues because the people doing the work are not high earners and need somewhere to stay and services for themselves and any dependents.

      But this is what a lot of you voted for, so don’t complain about it now the chickens are coming home to roost.

    4. PARFT on

      My suspicion is also that the money behind the care sector nobbled the assisted dying bill.

    5. FewPhysics7624 on

      The issue here is really that we live unhealthy lives. Health spans are dropping whilst medicine has gotten a lot better at keeping sick people from dying.

      Long term we need a return to healthier diets and for people to have the time available to look after themselves and others. Basically we need to lessen the years elderly people live in poor health by increasing healthspan.

      The care sector is essentially an externalised cost from choosing to organise our society in a hyper capitalist fashion.

    6. messiah-of-cheese on

      They did their best during covid to kill everyone in care homes, you’d think there would be lots of breathing room.

      Turns out paying people jack shit to wash the arses of people that have given the country their best doesnt end in a good result for anybody.

      Let’s not get in to the highly qualified labour thats been brought in from abroad…

    7. LJ-696 on

      She is not wrong at all.

      To say social care is a shit show is an understatement.

    8. Diastrous_Lie on

      Increase carers allowance so more family members can help instead, because the money is nothing and cant replace a jobs income

      Carers allowanxe also only goes to one person when the reality is multiple family members help

      Or offer other incentives

      No council tax if you have a cared for person in your home and you are claiming carer allowance for them

      This would cause a culture shift so we are more like other family orientated countries 

    9. Late-Painting-7831 on

      Just nationalise the care system the private sector and quangos evidently can’t do the job

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