Tag: Coronavirus
Care Homes and COVID-19: UK Social Care Sector Isn’t Getting Support It Requires, Insider Warns
Social care currently looks after 400,000 people in care and nursing homes throughout the United Kingdom, which is “three times the number in NHS hospital beds”, according industry representative Mike Padgham. He also says the sector takes care of an additional 640,000 people “in their own homes” and “employs 1.5 million people”. …