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Warning of shortage of workers as cost of care rises sharply in region
Nurse and senior lady in a care home
Annabelle Dickson Political editor
People are shunning jobs in social care to work in supermarkets, leaving a shortfall in the army of workers needed to look after us in old age, it has been warned.
Dennis Bacon, chairman of care providers body Norfolk Independent Care, said the lack of respect for social care work has put people off joining the profession, leaving the industry with a middle-aged workforce which will not go on forever.
It is one of the factors pushing up annual care costs, which rose £2,912, or 9.4pc, in the East, leaving the region with the most expensive care homes for the first time. The average cost for a residential space is now £33,800 per year.
East Lancs elderly could be left in financial black hole
Mr Key said his firm will struggle to pay its homecare workers the £7.20-an-hour rate.
EAST Lancashire’s pensioners could be left with no-one to care for them unless urgent action is taken to fill a financial black hole, it was claimed.
Private companies have joined a campaign to highlight the effects of implementing a new National Living Wage.
NHS is forced to remind doctors and nurses that they must give water to dying patients
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Professor Patrick Pullicino said he still sees dehydrated patients on wards
- Food and drink had been withdrawn from dying people to speed up death
- The so-called Liverpool Care Pathway was abolished 12 months ago Medics have been warned continue giving dying patients water
By Sophie Borland for the Daily Mail
Doctors and nurses are having to be reminded to give water to dying patients.
It is being spelled out to them in basic guidelines following concerns that patients are being denied fluids before their deaths.
