Health chiefs demand 'urgent' plan to tackle social care staffing crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Part of the reason people end up in a hospital is because of the weakness in social care, social care plays an incredibly important role in maintaining people's independence and people's well-being and people are not getting the social care they need its more likely they will become physically or mentally unwell and flow into NHS services."
63% : A dedicated plan to protect, support and develop careers in social care would both strengthen the wellbeing and recognition of those who work in this essential vocation, as well as benefit the people who draw on care."
61% : The flagship NHS plan announced on Friday states that its ambitions are "predicated on access to social care services remaining in line with current levels or improving".
58% : "Our motivation in seeking your urgent intervention is because our members know that social care provision is essential to the communities we serve, and because we also know that the risks faced by our colleagues in relation to their workforce are profound."
55% : "Considering the overlapping nature of both workforces, urgent action is needed on pay and conditions to attract new people to social care and reduce turnover.
52% : He welcomed the NHS Confederation's letter and said unless similar improvements were made within social care, there would be more "cancelled opreations, more people languishing in hospital when they don't need to and the whole breakdown of the system".
49% : Mr Taylor told The Independent: "The plan is based on a significant increase in productivity in the NHS but there's no question that one of the things that makes it difficult to achieve productivity gains in the NHS is the state that social care is in, and the fact social care isn't able to play the role of prevention in one hand and treat people as much as possible outside of the hospital.
47% : The document also warns social care has fewer nurses and those it does have are paid less than NHS workers and are leaving at higher rates.
45% : "I think the NHS workforce plan is a three-legged stool and the two other legs are social care and capital and if we don't sort out the fundamental issues within our social care system then the NHS workforce plan is going to have less impact then we might have hoped."He added: "Government after government has put off the question of resolving the fundamental question of how we fund our social care system for an ageing population...

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