Carer Support Wiltshire and Observer backed John’s Campaign wins support from the NHS.
A significant milestone has been reached by John’s Campaign, the rapidly growing project to break down institutionalised barriers in the NHS and allow carers of people with dementia who are admitted to hospital to be able to stay with them or visit them at any time. Hospitals across the UK are now set to change their policies to allow better access for carers
You can read the full story in the Observer here.
Unpaid carers can’t keep on plugging gaps in the NHS and social care, writes Paul Burstow in The Guardian.
It is plain is that the tone of the debate about the role of unpaid carers needs to change. Research has underlined how badly this is needed. Moved to Care took a look at the implications of UK migration policy for the future care workforce. Its stark conclusion is that there will be a shortfall of 200,000 people needed to meet the care of a larger older and more frail population. And Horizon 2035: Future Demand for Skills, found that demand for health and care skills could grow more than twice as fast as overall population growth by 2035.
Add to that the result of a poll for the Astellas Innovation Debate, which found that 52% of the public do not have confidence that the government will provide them with high-quality social care in later life, and the picture is stark. There is an enormous and expanding gap between demand and provision.
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The Pensions minister is urging firms to voluntarily incorporate ‘family care leave’ into contracts.
Companies could suffer a manpower crisis within the next decade unless they find ways to enable middle-aged and older workers to take time off for care commitments in a similar way to the flexibility afforded to parents, Baroness Altmann has warned.
The peer, a former director general of Saga, urged firms to voluntarily incorporate “family care leave” into contracts, otherwise millions of valued and experienced workers could be forced to retire early. Lady Altmann is leading a task force of business and union leaders to develop a form of flexible leave to avert the potentially crippling exodus of experience from the economy.
Full report in the Telegraph.
