Emeritus Prof Christopher May · @ChrisMayLA6
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@Crysophilax

Well, they seem to be suggesting they might try them out in ... whether they will, of course, is another issue

#socialcare

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May · @ChrisMayLA6
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This picture of how the system exploits its foreign and then treats them as disposable, is wrong & immoral on a number of levels - take five minutes to read this & wonder what our county has become?

[and Merit Healthcare's weasily words in their defence, featured at the end of the article, are in my view best discounted]

theguardian.com/society/2023/s

#socialcare #workforce

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Mr.Trunk · @mrtrunk
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May · @ChrisMayLA6
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A TUC report into the crisis in found:

More than three in five (62%) childcare workers & social care workers earn less than the real living wage;

Social care workers earn only about 65% of the median salary for all employees (£21,500 a year compared with £33,000);

Childcare workers earn only 56% of the median salary for all employees (£18,400).

Anyone who thinks social care can be sustained like this is delusional... we need a social rethink!

theguardian.com/society/2023/a

#socialcare

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· @doboprobodyne
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1/3: A message I wrote to a friend re. healthcare spending of nations, which they had observed to be increasing:

I'm of the (uneducated) opinion that as countries/peoples become more wealthy in peace-time, once they percieve their needs as met, they end up spending that wealth on healthcare. A great tragedy from our perspective is that the best healthcare spending is preventative, but the wildest healthcare spending I observe through anecdote in other countries is curative; notoriously seen in futile end-of-life care in America.

The most obvious homologue - of a nation spending a hoofing amount of it's wealth in a given industry - seems to me the "military-industrial complex". It's a slightly clumsy term for our purpose, but here the military is a function of the government which in turn is a function of the country/peoples. So I think of it as a nation spending a hoofing amount of it's money on funding the industries that manufacture and deliver "warheads on foreheads", so to speak.

The best summary of this was provided by Eisenhower. I paste here words from usnews.com/opinion/blogs/rober:

> More than a week after Stalin’s death, Eisenhower was talking with speechwriter Emmet Hughes about the address. “Look, I am tired—and I think everyone is tired—of just plain indictments of the Soviet regime,” Ike said. “I think it would be wrong—in fact, asinine—for me to get up before the world now to make another one of those indictments. Instead, just one thing matters. What have we got to offer the world?”

#hospitals #socialcare #elderlycare #physiotherapy #midwifery #nursing #medicine #bigpharma #publichealth #finance #healthinsurance #medicare #obamacare #nhs #economics #healthcare

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Gert :debian: :gnu: :linux: · @Gert
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Bisogna prendere atto che dietro quelle vendite c’è una richiesta. Il lavoro di psicoterapia non è una chiacchierata né una passeggiata, è un lavoro sfidante e responsabilizzante, sia per il terapista sia per chi va in terapia. Troppo spesso il farmaco, invece che prezioso allato nel prendersi cura di sé e della vita, diventa l’occasione per appaltare l’esistenza alla molecola e non farsi carico di sé. Bisogna anche mettere a tema i contesti, le culture sociali, le trasformazioni culturali del mondo che generiamo e nel quale vengono formulate (o eluse) le domande di senso. Non si ammalano solo i corpi, si ammalano anche i significati, le istituzioni, i contesti sociali e culturali.

www-corriere-it.cdn.ampproject

#wellfare #salutementale #benessere #socialcare

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Dyfrig Williams · @dyfrig
342 followers · 891 posts · Server toot.wales

Really interesting podcast on . There are big challenges around recruitment and retention in currently, lots in here that might be helpful bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g38qvp

#jobdesign #socialcare #socialworkuk #socialwork

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SiobhanVohn · @SiobhanVohn
28 followers · 111 posts · Server mastodon.scot

New paper 'From pillars
to practice' which presents a future framework for embedding in and .

Co-authored by Aaron Slater @DigiScot and Dr Tara French @ScotGov

scvo.scot/p/61043/2023/07/21/p

#socialcare #health #digitalinclusion

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Jon May · @jonmay
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@TangueraRhi @WarnerCrocker don’t know who your council is but of they are making a profit from their car park then it it’s paying for so freeing up beds in the .

#socialcare #nhs #lookonthebrightside

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SubtleBlade ⚔️ · @SubtleBlade
211 followers · 4028 posts · Server mastodon.scot

of in is ‘appalling’, says government adviser

says ministers have allowed ’s creaking system to become too heavily reliant on low-paid foreign workers who are vulnerable to exploitation, the government’s adviser has warned.
theguardian.com/society/2023/j

#toryinhumanity #torypoliciesinaction #migration #socialcare #brianbell #england #careworkers #exploitation

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Donald Roy · @djr
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@ChrisMayLA6

I would not disagree. would have sorted out quite early on in such an administration. Much of the costly and ineffective obsession with using the private sector would have been abandoned as it was already beginning to be under .

#andyburnham #socialcare #brown

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Bob Jamieson · @bobjmsn
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Save our social care: Align care and support worker pay to NHS pay bands.
The Fabian Society think tank – which heavily influences Labour policy - has reflected this in its vision for the future of social care and a prominent Conservative has come out in favour too. We are generating momentum. Now, ahead of the party...

chng.it/kdfxm8fmQb

#socialcare #pay #supportworkers #careworkers

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Judith Bunting · @judithbuntingld
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RT Vikki Slade 🔶💙 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Brilliant video @carolinevoaden … a sentiment we all share I am sure n.respublicae.eu/judithbunting
<div class="rsshub-quote">
Judith Bunting: WATCH THIS: Sensible analysis of the NHS situation. Recruitment is good, but what about staff retention?
You can’t recruit your way out of a retention crisis.

carolinevoaden.com/post/happy-
</div>

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/vikki4mdnp/st

#NHS75 #NHS75Women #NHS #socialcare

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Dyfrig Williams · @dyfrig
345 followers · 861 posts · Server toot.wales

Since moving to England I've seen how much different parts of the UK could learn from each other around the delivery of . This BASW podcast perfectly illustrates that, particularly around learning from the integration of health and social care in Northern Ireland shows.acast.com/lets-talk-soci

#socialwork #socialcare

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Michael · @therightarticle
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We need a National Care Service like the NHS to fix our crisis

It’s precisely what Corbyn proposed to do in 2017.

opendemocracy.net/en/oureconom

#socialcare

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May · @ChrisMayLA6
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Here's an eminently sensible six-point plan to 'fix' the from a consultant :

1. Clarify GP's role & links with (with GPs driving change, not top down 'reform')

2. New (ambitious) national standards

3. Transform the respect accorded to

4. Improve preventative

5. Establish an effective strategy

6. Sort out services.

Just stating the 6 points shows the damage a decade of defunding has wrought!
theguardian.com/society/2023/j

#nhs #doctor #socialcare #carers #healthcare #obesity #mentalhealth #tory

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ReganElite · @Reganelite1
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Coding Gardener · @cdavies
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Brownie points for the Department for Education for evaluation of its Children’s Programme.

They get a special mention for being good at a thing other departments seem to be failing at (or not even trying).

More on evaluation:

"Short-termism in government and the desire for quick results hinders proper investment in evaluation."

#innovation #socialcare

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