Chris Heaton-Harris and Gaurav Menon: Who Cares? Part 1 – We need to talk about adult social care
The adult social care sector in England is currently facing a significant crisis, driven by structural issues that are difficult to resolve. New residents entering care homes are more complex, often presenting multiple health conditions that require skilled staff and resources. Additionally, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated staffing shortages and increased demands on the system.
- ▪Over 70 percent of new care home admissions present with three or more comorbidities.
- ▪The pandemic has led to sustained staff departure and burnout in the care sector.
- ▪Local authority fee rates for care are often below the actual cost of care delivery.
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Rt Hon Chris Heaton-Harris was MP for Daventry 2010 -2024 and was in the Cabinets of three Prime Ministers he has since founded a public affairs company called Oak Insight Gaurav Menon is a social care executive with more than two decades of experience operating in highly regulated sectors, including adult social care and environmental services. This is part 1 of a mini-series Who Cares? with part 2 tomorrow and part 3 on Friday Based on ‘The Future of Adult Social Care in England: A Predictive Analysis’ by Gaurav Menon England’s adult social care sector is not approaching a crisis. It is already inside one. The forces driving it are structural, compounding, and largely irreversible within any planning horizon that current political discourse is willing to contemplate.
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