Care Sector Insight (21.05.2024)

Policy Highlights

COVID-19: guidance for people whose immune system means they are at higher risk
This was updated for Spring 2024, Guidance for people aged 12 and over whose immune system means they are at higher risk of serious illness if they become infected with COVID-19. This page includes information on keeping safe, as well as eligibility for either additional COVID-19 vaccine doses or new NHS COVID-19 treatments.
GOV.UK
 
Public perceptions of health and social care (November 2023)
The fifth wave of results from the Health Foundation programme of UK-wide public polling delivered in partnership with Ipsos.
 
The results show:

• The public's favoured option on funding is to increase taxes in order to maintain the level of spending needed to keep the current level of care and services provided by the NHS.

• The public think social care workers are paid too little and support various measures to increase pay, though they think the current funding approach for social care is unfair.

The Health Foundation
 
Inequalities in healthcare and employment for people with a learning disability and autistic people
This is the final report based on findings from a House of Commons inquiry into the National Disability Strategy. It considers the inequalities facing people with a learning disability and autistic people, specifically in access to healthcare and employment opportunities.
House of Commons

Latest at Care England

Brits urged to fill ‘migrant job’ gap – Good Morning Britain
In an interview on Good Morning Britain about the recent announcement from the Department of Work and Pensions, Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England says “being a care worker is certainly a vocation, and nobody who doesn’t have the right values or indeed wants to do the job should be forced into it.” You can watch the interview here. Care England also issued a press statement suggesting the proposed 'skills boot camps' to boost domestic employment will do little to reassure care providers in the face of a recruitment and retention crisis. The press statement can be read here.
 
Demystifying Court of Protection and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards for Care Home Managers
Join our webinar to find out more about Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and their operation in a care home setting.
 Register here.