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care in the uk - a disgrace

Blimey hash tag it sounds like you are up against it as well as your clients. Keep going though, the system will be even more fkd without people like you in there.

I'm caring for my 94 year old uncle at the mo. I won't start just now about the difficulties we endure because I'm still reeling from your post. The thread title says it all.
 
I'm fine, just furious at the revolving door in hospitals. Want to go home? yes. Next day we are scraping them up or sending them right back to hospital. It's little skin of
my nose. It's not good for the client and creates so much unnecessary work for a variety of people, hospitals, ambulances, social services........
 
I'm in the process of diplomatically causing trouble for an organisation that are responsible for bullying my ex clients. If some Urbans would like to be involved then get in touch. :)
 
Danger And Despair Inside Cambian Group, Britain's Largest Private Child Care Home Provider
Big rewards for investors and executives, “chaos” and “unhygienic” conditions for children.
July 26, 2018
Britain’s largest care home provider was in a tailspin — missed profit targets, ballooning debts, cratering stock price. So executives at Cambian Group plc, which bills taxpayers millions to look after disadvantaged children, came up with a plan: Cut spending and fill beds.

Consultants came in to review Cambian’s “cost management”. A “turnaround specialist” renowned for slashing expenses at corporate giants joined the board. Executives pushed staff to tighten their budgets and to hit occupancy targets in order to, as one memo put it, become “more efficient and agile” and “remain attractive to investors”.
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The plan worked. In the past two years Cambian’s stock has tripled, and it cleared more than £192 million in revenue last year.

But while Cambian has reaped the benefits of its corporate recovery, young people in its care have endured decrepit conditions and even suffered violent assaults, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found. Documents and interviews show vulnerable kids forced to share close quarters with dangerous peers, rooms marred by vomit spatter and broken furniture, and homes spiralling out of control under the watch of poorly trained staff.
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Maddening
 
I spoke to someone in the care home where I used to work recently. There is a staff crisis going on, with a real recruitment problem. The wages are shit and don't attract the best candidates. People don't stay for long. So they end up paying out more for agency staff.
Sounds very stressful for the long term staff who are still there - so there are lots of plans being made to leave. They will soon lose all their best staff.

I still feel disloyal for escaping - but so much happier, better paid and less stressed since.
 
friendofdorothy said:
I spoke to someone in the care home where I used to work recently. There is a staff crisis going on, with a real recruitment problem. The wages are shit and don't attract the best candidates. People don't stay for long. So they end up paying out more for agency staff.
Sounds very stressful for the long term staff who are still there - so there are lots of plans being made to leave. They will soon lose all their best staff.

I still feel disloyal for escaping - but so much happier, better paid and less stressed since.
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Privately owned care home? A lot are. And those at the top cream off so much money it’s untrue.
 
Edie said:
Privately owned care home? A lot are. And those at the top cream off so much money it’s untrue.
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No its a religious owned charity. I find it hard to imagine how any company can make a profit - except by screwing their staff and residents.
 
I think this is true not just of care homes but much of the care industry...if sheltered housing officers still exist, their conditions have got worse and quality of staff not so good. When I started sheltered housing officers were residential, which have mostly long since gone. My own field has had a nightmare requiring staff...
 
friendofdorothy said:
No its a religious owned charity. I find it hard to imagine how any company can make a profit - except by screwing their staff and residents.
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I got my dad into a care home a few months ago which seems genuinely good - has a nice vibe, CQC rated outstanding. Run by a charity that has about a dozen homes. Some of the other homes in the area I looked at were awful, and often cost even more. So I reckon it's possible to provide good care even in the current system if you're not focused on profit.
 
lazythursday said:
I got my dad into a care home a few months ago which seems genuinely good - has a nice vibe, CQC rated outstanding. Run by a charity that has about a dozen homes. Some of the other homes in the area I looked at were awful, and often cost even more. So I reckon it's possible to provide good care even in the current system if you're not focused on profit.
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Glad for your Dad. I’ve been in some shocking ones.
 
Edie said:
Privately owned care home? A lot are. And those at the top cream off so much money it’s untrue.
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In the older persons sector that is less and less true, unless you run a high end operation solely focused on self funders willing/able to spend upwards of £1,500 pw for a bed.

If you run a business mostly funded from local authority bed rates, it is increasingly difficult, which is why so many are going to the wall or the owners are closing them. Nigh on impossible to run a medium sized care home (20-50 beds) of any quality for rates of £350 - £450 per week.

LD/MH is a different proposition, plenty of money in that game still.
 
crossthebreeze said:
This article is utterly heartbreaking, and I suspect this sort of thing happens to a lot of disabled and elderly people.
Housebound 84-year-old man spends three days on the floor after a fall because carers aren't allowed to pick him up
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I wouldn't blame the carers for that. If the photo is of Arthur he looks big. No use of legs and wheelchair bound he would be difficult to assist up. It's wrong he was down for so long. It's wrong the ambulance took all that time, but the system is wrong/broken.
i am often called out by carers to get someone up. It grates when the person is small, could assist and would take little effort, but, carers are notctrained to do that and could hurt themselves or the client. Sad but true.
 
Yeah, the carers that look after me dad at his own home say that if a client falls, they call an ambulance and wait for them to attend. They then call their supervisor, in case other calls have to be re-arranged to another carer, or retimed depending on who is available to cover.
In North Wales, so sometimes that ambulance can be more than "just a few minutes" - the lady who has her lunch call just before me dad, has had several falls recently.
 
Easy to say in retrospect, but I would have knocked on the doors of all the neighbours until I had enough people to lift him.
 
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