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CQC urges government to fund better pay for care staff to tackle ‘gridlocked’ system

Community Care

The CQC welcomed the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) injection of £500m into the sector this winter to boost its capacity to respond to hospital discharges and tackle workforce shortages. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee. BIA shortages.

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No funded social care commitments in Labour manifesto

Community Care

Labour will develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge. As part of the efforts to move healthcare into local communities and professionalise the workforce, we will task regulators with assessing the role social care workers can play in basic health treatment and monitoring.