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Care Homes Could Be Forced to Call On the Relatives of Their Residents to Help Out Due to Staff Shortages Caused by Vaccine Mandate

by Michael Curzon
27 August 2021 11:09 PM

Staff shortages in care homes caused by Government-imposed Covid vaccine mandates could force some homes to call on the families of their residents to volunteer to work on reception and to serve meals. The Telegraph has the story.

Providers have voiced fears that shortages caused by workers refusing to be double jabbed will amount to such a significant proportion of the workforce that the sector could collapse.

In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, one care home manager has written to the relatives of residents – many of whom are paying thousands of pounds for care – asking for help with caring duties “if the worst comes to the worst”.

Mike Padgham, Chairman of the Independent Care Group for York and North Yorkshire and owner of Saint Cecilia’s Care Services, which operates four care businesses, said the plan showed the “crisis” facing the sector, adding: “We want to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.” …

The Government has previously estimated that its mandatory vaccination policy will result in about 40,000 care home staff – 7% – either quitting or being sacked, costing the embattled sector £100 million to replace. 

According to the latest available data, funded by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) and published by Skills for Care in October 2020, there were 112,000 vacancies in the sector.

However, industry leaders warned that after the past year, as Covid ravaged care homes, causing the deaths of more than 40,000 residents, this number is now likely to be far higher and could even have doubled.

There are approximately 865,000 care workers, 87,000 senior care workers and 36,000 registered nurses in England, according to figures published by The King’s Fund think-tank in July.

Worth reading in full.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

“covid ravaged care homes”. That should be neglect ravaged “care” homes. These care providers need to develop a spine and tell the government where to shove their “vaccine” mandate.

Last edited 3 years ago by helenf
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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

My sister-in-law, a qualified nurse, had worked at the same care home for seventeen years. In April she and three other care staff resigned on the same day, due to the owners introducing their own vaccine mandate. Since then the government has shoved its big fat nose into the sector and will no doubt be making a bad situation worse.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Indeed, that is the only viable response.

If Care Homes don’t refuse the industry will collapse anyway. Of course this has always been part of the plan. The devastation in the wider population as care homes start to close for good will be immense.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Possibly some might, but I suspect that many are terrified of the prospect of losing any insurance cover or being sued to bankruptcy by the usual flocks of ambulance-chasing legal vultures.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

I’m sure that’s true. But we know the “vaccines” don’t work anyway, and staff will still test positive (as many vaccinated people are doing now). And the deaths of elderly residents will still be classed as covid deaths even if they’re not, by lazy, frightened GPs who haven’t even clapped eyes on the patient. I doubt any lessons will have been learned from lockdowns #1 and #2.

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

It’s not that lessons aren’t been learned. It’s that the same people with the same agenda are still running our show.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
3 years ago

So, mandatory jabbing for the relatives then?

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Oh yes. And will they be paid for their services? Or get a discount on care home fees? Doubt it.

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wendy
wendy
3 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Indeed they should be! It would be a turn up to be allowed more that a 45 minute visit anyway.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Just say no.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

I’m going to say a dreadful thing.
I’m glad my father’s dead.
I’m glad, because he spent his last two years in a care home that was as good as a care home can be, and it was still bloody awful.
The thought of him in a short-staffed killing home is so utterly, utterly dreadful that the reality would have driven me mad.
Because it would be no use my volunteering to help out, would it? Better for them to watch my father dying amidst neglect and chaos than to allow an unvaxxer near him.

If you have a God, pray hard for the victims of this savagery,

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I felt the same about my father, who fortunately died before this shitshow began. It would have killed my mother not to have been able to visit him and knowing he was being neglected by a skeleton staff, PPE’d up to the max.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I’m sorry about your experience with your father. But if his care was ‘bloody awful’, then it wasn’t ‘as good as a care home can be’, speaking from my personal knowledge.

And that is the point – this sort of provision is demanding at the best of times, and depends upon the skills of the staff and management. If the government goes poncing around with this idiocy, it can only make the achievement of high standards more and more difficult.

It would be bad enough even if the clams about the snake oil were based in reality. Given the known problems with provision, the only rational conclusion is that the government are intent on destroying the sector and forcing care responsibility back onto relatives.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

It wasn’t the staff’s fault really. He was in the dementia wing with other demented people (much worse than he was), and that’s what convinced me that dementia is worse than death. The staff were in an impossible situation.
What it’s lime now I really, really can’t bear to imagine.

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago

The owners of care homes will appreciate some free labour. Just as firms appreciate those working-from-home saving on their office costs, all that electricity and water…

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Cashmere
Cashmere
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Just as the councils welcome all the people litter-picking….

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Bobby Lobster
Bobby Lobster
3 years ago

You mean the residents’ families who weren’t allowed to see their loved one’s for 18 months?

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Margaret
Margaret
3 years ago
Reply to  Bobby Lobster

During the first lockdown, the care package providers for my m-i-l told us that if the family continued to visit her at home then they would withdraw the care package for her. This was in spite of the fact that we were following the government guidelines on supporting vulnerable people (and even wearing masks). As a result, we didn’t see my m-i-l for six weeks. The care providers then experienced a staffing problem so we were called in to help put my m-i-l to bed at night. One day we were called to ask if we could help get her up at 7 o’clock the next morning.
It appears that the rules could be ignored when it suited.

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John Drewry
John Drewry
3 years ago

Yes, but if the relatives haven’t been double jabbed themselves, they won’t be able to contribute voluntary care, will they?

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

Well thats another way of achieving the world Governments aim of reducing the population. Well done to Boris Johnson and all his supporters

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

vaccine mandates are irrelevant not least because the vaccines don’t stop people catching and spreading the virus. why not just sanitise the air within the care homes with UV, heat treatment or other within the ventilation ducting – no viral load = no spread

Oh and give the inmates ivermectin or HCQ or whatever protection treatments recommended by real doctors like Kory or McCullough – for more effective than the theatre of ineffective but ”look we are doing something” vax mandates

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

sanitised air = no/low viral load build up

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

Because more would live?

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brachiopod
brachiopod
3 years ago

This presupposes that the relatives will all be double vaccinated though.

How is that going to work?

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Sandra Barwick
Sandra Barwick
3 years ago
Reply to  brachiopod

I bet almost all have been forced into that already.
The huge rise in deaths at home running for many months now suggests
i. More people choosing to die at home of terminal diseases because of the heartless rules in homes and hospices.
ii. More keeping the elderly at home until it is absolutely impossible to continue, or eschewing homes entirely because of heartless rules there.
iii. A possible/probable link to jab linked heart events, mirrored in the rise of ambulance call outs for heart attacks. It is going to be interesting to see what rises in which conditions have happened over the year ending when jabs began.
iv Perhaps suicides, though inquests lag badly and that’s more doubtful.

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Jon Mors
Jon Mors
3 years ago

If the government wanted to help it could offer to pay the heating bills for all care homes, and for all old folks, over the next winter, thus allowing them to keep the windows open to ensure adequate ventilation. But I guess that’s too simple for them.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
3 years ago
Reply to  Jon Mors

Bit of a CO2 emissions dilemma for them there.

Last edited 3 years ago by Noumenon
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