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Unleash Your Potential: Student Nurses, Embrace the Rewards of Domiciliary Care Work!

Introduction:

In the dynamic world of healthcare, the role of student nurses is pivotal, and there’s an exciting avenue waiting to be explored – domiciliary care work. As a student nurse, stepping into the realm of domiciliary care offers not only invaluable work experience but also flexible hours and competitive pay rates. This unique opportunity allows you to hone your nursing skills while making a tangible difference in the lives of those in need.

  1. Practical Work Experience: Elevate Your Nursing Skills

Domiciliary care work provides a hands-on environment for student nurses to apply and enhance their theoretical knowledge. Working directly with individuals in the comfort of their homes exposes you to a diverse range of healthcare scenarios. From administering medications to wound care and health monitoring, the practical experience gained in domiciliary care settings complements your academic learning, laying a solid foundation for your future nursing career.

  1. Flexible Hours: Tailoring Work Around Your Studies

Recognizing the demanding nature of nursing education, domiciliary care work offers the flexibility needed for students to strike a balance between academic commitments and gaining practical experience. The ability to choose your working hours allows you to seamlessly integrate work into your schedule, ensuring you can fulfill both your educational and professional responsibilities without compromising either.

  1. Competitive Pay Rates: Value for Your Expertise

Domiciliary care work acknowledges the expertise that student nurses bring to the table. Unlike some other work experiences, this role offers competitive pay rates, ensuring that your dedication and skills are appropriately recognized. As you embark on your journey toward becoming a fully qualified nurse, the financial rewards from domiciliary care work can alleviate some of the economic pressures associated with student life.

  1. Building Patient-Centered Relationships: A Fulfilling Journey

Beyond the educational and financial advantages, working in domiciliary care allows student nurses to forge meaningful connections with their patients. This personalized approach to care fosters a patient-centered mindset, a crucial aspect of nursing practice. These relationships not only contribute to the well-being of your clients but also enhance your ability to provide compassionate and tailored care as you progress in your nursing career.

Conclusion:

For student nurses seeking a holistic learning experience that goes beyond textbooks and lecture halls, domiciliary care work is an inviting pathway. Offering flexible hours, competitive pay rates, and the chance to make a real impact on individuals’ lives, this opportunity aligns seamlessly with the dynamic lifestyle of a student nurse. As you embark on this fulfilling journey, domiciliary care work not only complements your academic pursuits but propels you toward becoming a well-rounded and compassionate healthcare professional. Join us and unleash your potential!

About Deckchair Care

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Analysis Shows 25% Cuts to Elderly Care

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Spending on vital care services for the elderly has been cut by a quarter per head since 2010, a BBC analysis shows.

An analysis by the BBC found reported spending on care for the over-65s has fallen by a quarter to £747 per head in England since 2010 once inflation is taken into account.

While facing the same pressures of an ageing population, in comparison, Wales and Scotland have largely protected their budgets.

Councils, which administer the system, have sympathy for the plight of the vulnerable who rely on their services.

The Local Government Association (LGA) became so fed up with waiting for the government that it produced its own Green Paper.

It called for tax rises so town halls could invest more in the system.

“The current situation is unsustainable and is failing people on a daily basis.”

Read more about the analysis here

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Example of a National Social Care Funding System

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Every rich country has a problem with social care, and two of them have come up with potential solutions.

Long Term Social Care Solutions

Germany and Japan have developed comprehensive responses to an ageing population.

Germany introduced a mandatory long-term care insurance system in 1995. The scheme was designed to ensure that everyone got something, no one gets something for nothing and everyone puts something in. A compulsory levy is paid by workers with employers contributing 50%. Retired people pay in full.

Japan started a similar system in 2000. A national tax is paid by workers over 40.

Both solutions centralise funding and revenue, then pay out funds to be delivered locally.

Read more about these solutions here (pay wall may apply).

 

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Social care can’t wait for 2020

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‘The time for warm words and wishful thinking is over’, warns Labour MP Meg Hillier

A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report has found that the country’s ageing population has led to a widespread consensus that integration and joint working is the right way forward for the health and social care systems.

Despite “a lot of talk within government” over how to support and accelerate this, there is still no effective overall strategy or plan to achieve it, the report said.

It also suggests that there should also be a costed strategy set out for social care over the same timeframe.

So far there have been 12 white papers, green papers and consultations, five independent reviews and consultations on the issue in the past 20 years.

Local authorities will have to wait until the 2020 Spending Review to get clarity on future funding, and while the Government “repeatedly tells us” it has increased social care funding, this is largely through council tax increases.

The report also highlights the wide gap in pay and career structure for those who work in the NHS compared with social care and it remains “concerned” that not enough is being done to tackle this.

Read more here

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‘Care injustice’ Means Limited Access to Good Quality Social Care

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NHS funding and soaring patient demand in England are fuelling “care injustice” where patients cannot access good quality social care because of where they live, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found.

£20bn has already been announced for the NHS, but it is not clear if any of this will help support social care which is creating many of the health services’ woes.

Peter Wyman, chairman of the CQC, said: “It is increasingly clear without a long-term funding settlement for adult social care, the additional funding for the NHS will be spent treating people with complex conditions for whom care in the community would have been more effective both in terms of their health and wellbeing and use of public money.”

Or see the full CQC report here

Read more about the report here.

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Elderly people needlessly admitted to hospital

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According to Age Uk analysis, almost 1,000 elderly people a day are being admitted to hospital needlessly amid a crisis in social care.

Reporting of NHS figures by the charity found that there were c341k avoidable admissions for people aged 65 and over during the year to April 2017.

1 in 10 have no children and 1 in 3 over-65s live alone. These figures are expected to rise as younger generations reach retirement age.

Those who do have loved ones to care for them rely on elderly relatives who may have health problems of their own.

Its report also highlights the problem of older people stuck in hospital and unable to go home. Bed blocking  puts even more strain on the healthcare system.

Care not being in place was the main reason there were delays for older people leaving hospital last year.

Read more about the report here.

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Social care needs predicted to double in next 20 years

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There has been growing concern over the cost of providing care for older and disabled adults. Spending on social care in English councils has shrunk by £7bn since 2010.

Research suggests there is going to be an explosion in social care requirements for Britain’s ageing population.

A recent study has concluded that health and social care services must adapt to the unprecedented needs of an older population with complex care needs, and warned the state should not rely on family carers as a sustainable solution to the problem.

“In the next 20 years, the English population aged 65 years or over will see increases in the number of individuals who are independent but also in those with complex care needs. This increase is due to more individuals reaching 85 years or older who have higher levels of dependency, dementia, and comorbidity. Health and social care services must adapt to the complex care needs of an increasing older population.”

Those who have dementia and at least two other major health conditions, such as obesity or diabetes, will double over the next two decades, it estimated, suggesting an extra 500,000 people will need complex forms of care.

The government has promised a green paper on social care funding will be published in the autumn.

Social Care Trends

The study also highlighted different trends for men and women, with the latter likely to experience higher levels of care dependency than their male counterparts by 2035, and fewer years of later life spent free of care needs.

Prof Carol Jagger of Newcastle university’s Institute for Ageing, and a co-author of the Lancet paper, said the gender differences highlighted the importance of focusing on disabling long-term conditions such as arthritis that were more common in women than men.

Simon Bottery, a senior fellow in social care at the King’s Fund thinktank, said: “This study is further evidence of the scale of pressure building up on social care services from an ageing population, which is compounded by growing demand from working age adults with disabilities.”

Read the Lancet article here 

And a press article of the report from the Guardian here.

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New ISA to Solve Social Care Crisis?

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Plans have emerged of a new ISA that the UK Government is considering to help people save to fund the cost of care in later life, and solve the country’s social care crisis.

The new Isa – would be exempt from inheritance tax.

Criticism has already been voiced from the Conservative back benches. ‘This won’t solve the care crisis at all. It only works for a small minority of wealthy people’, warns Sarah Wollaston

Sarah Wollaston, the chair of Commons Health and Social Care Committee, has said the plans were a “colossal mistake” and she claims that they would not solve the crisis “at all”.

It is understood that the Treasury has been reviewing proposals to include the new Isa in the social care green paper due to be announced by the government.

4.3m people over 70 have an average of £40,000 in Isa wealth. Meanwhile more than 12 million over-50s have saved tens of thousands of pounds in Isas.

Read the original article here

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Potential Care worker shortage after Brexit

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According to a Department of Health report, there will be up to 28,000 fewer care workers in five years.

In a worse case scenario, the reduced service could mean people quiting jobs to care for relatives.

The report, a response to the call for evidence issued by the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), says women in particular will be forced to take up the slack.

“Considering rising life expectancy, population structural changes (significant increases in those aged 85 and over) as well as increases in the number of people living with one or more long-term conditions, there are significant demand implications for the health and social care workforce,” it says.

“Unless we ensure such demand is met, there is a wider risk to labour market participation more generally, especially when considering increasing social care needs. If we fail to meet social care needs adequately we are likely to see a decrease in labour market participation levels, especially among women, as greater numbers undertake informal care.”

The report says there are already 90,000 vacancies in the sector.

Read the full article here.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/06/carer-shortage-after-brexit-will-force-women-to-quit-jobs

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Blame and Targets Stopping Better NHS and Social Care Communication

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A recent report by the CQC blames a lack of communication between care providers and the NHS for bed blocking.

Social care and healthcare providers were failing to properly work together, the regulator warned, with divisions “sharpened” by “defensive behaviours”, it concluded.

“The sustainability of the health service depends on a sustainable social care system”

Read the article here

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/02/targets-blame-culture-stop-older-people-getting-proper-care/

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