Yes, care and nursing homes are not regarded as equal partners in care, and neither are families and unpaid carers. (Like me). Whatever the fancy rhetoric, we have a social pecking order in the NHS and Social Care that regards the private and voluntary sector as low-paid inferiors, and this must be challenged robustly. Either the State nationalises and embraces social care workers as public sector employees, worthy of equal pay and conditions or it does not. Likewise, how were family carers treated as pariahs in this ghastly process, whilst the people depending on care treated as dangerous, worthless and inconvenient carriers of disease ?
Gruelling.
Yes, care and nursing homes are not regarded as equal partners in care, and neither are families and unpaid carers. (Like me). Whatever the fancy rhetoric, we have a social pecking order in the NHS and Social Care that regards the private and voluntary sector as low-paid inferiors, and this must be challenged robustly. Either the State nationalises and embraces social care workers as public sector employees, worthy of equal pay and conditions or it does not. Likewise, how were family carers treated as pariahs in this ghastly process, whilst the people depending on care treated as dangerous, worthless and inconvenient carriers of disease ?