Hi @andyburnham I spoke today to a friend whose father had Alzheimer’s. He told me that last year the council was paying around £900 a week for carers to visit four times a day, providing a combined total of about two hours of care per day.
That works out at approximately £64 per hour of delivered care to the agency.
While many care workers providing the actual visits are paid around £16 per hour.
For comparison, an experienced NHS Band 6 nurse earns around £20 per hour.
Why are taxpayers paying such high rates to private care providers when the frontline workers themselves receive a much smaller proportion of the cost?
Would a publicly provided model, with qualified nurses and care workers employed directly by the NHS or local authorities, provide better value and more consistent support, rather than relying on care agencies that often deliver short, offer fragmented visits, charge a fortune, and make extortionate profits?
@benonwine Lots of butterflies, lots of ladybirds…not many dragon flies this year. Bees yes, wasps no…and yes lots of flies with the bright green backs. Good question you raise…
@marksandspencer crotchless knickers? Seriously. No, you didn’t get my attention and yes it’s tawdry. Didn’t realise Ann Summers were part of your marketing strategy. Will give it miss and I’d say to everyone, shop at an independent 👍they need your business not a headline!
@Channel4News@clarefallon pls stop behaving like Robert Peston. You opened the Greater Mayoral news item in a looooong drawn out process and then asked us if we understood?? Just keep to the point and keep it sharp. You weren’t delivering the GE results 😩
@feelgoodtale People…get involved with the @age_uk befriending telephone service. It’s a good way of connecting with someone who might want someone to talk to 💕
This tedious little w*nker is Chris Weston, CEO of Thames Water. He says:
"Bills have been too low for too long."
You will note that he says nothing about his salary has been too high for achieving f*ck all.
Thames Water has not built a reservoir SINCE 1977.
#BBCBreakfast
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in water stressed areas - with no legal duty to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness