I am stunned that a care home that was doing so well has swooped so low in 12 months, but we have not been present to remind and prompt, and also I note many experienced carers have left leaving a gap of constant agency refills. Is it any wonder when I call to see how my mum is I met with a person that doesn't know.
I think this is a wider reflection on a failing care system, and anyone who defends this stumps my tolerance of care, and believe me I have seen some astonishing ideas of it.
In 2019 the NHS published its NHS Plan which depends on the joined up working of the social care system -I can only say that anyone that has faith in what will come is mistaken as the social care system faces a significant crisis (one which my mum is paying for), not only in lack of trained carers but in the collapse of the system itself. In the next five years care home placements will rise by about 80,000 with no provision for this in the current system or sustained recruitment of trained staff. Perhaps then people will stop accepting sub optimal care and start asking why the system we have is just not working. My mum and many at her stage are the last of the lucky few....god help those who come next
I think this is a wider reflection on a failing care system, and anyone who defends this stumps my tolerance of care, and believe me I have seen some astonishing ideas of it.
In 2019 the NHS published its NHS Plan which depends on the joined up working of the social care system -I can only say that anyone that has faith in what will come is mistaken as the social care system faces a significant crisis (one which my mum is paying for), not only in lack of trained carers but in the collapse of the system itself. In the next five years care home placements will rise by about 80,000 with no provision for this in the current system or sustained recruitment of trained staff. Perhaps then people will stop accepting sub optimal care and start asking why the system we have is just not working. My mum and many at her stage are the last of the lucky few....god help those who come next