England is facing another needless Brexit disaster: care home staff shortages | Care workers | The Guardian

While the article is correct in the facts on staff shortages in care, it continues the false impression of social care as care in Care Homes is just one part of social care, albeit an essential part. But all care in social care is essential be it in Home Care, Respite, Hospices, Supported Living, etc

So lack of care staff effects all aspects of social care, so it will not be just the elderly affected, but all persons in need of care be they be children or adults.

This is a very serious crisis on top of the also funding crisis, which again is down to the Government, as their promised review of social care is still awaited, having been promised for many years. The Cameron Governments being from 2010-2016 promised this review but decided to delay the review implementation until 1 April 2020, which passed without comment, was this because of COVID-19 or was that just a convenient excuse, if Boris was challenged.

The funding crisis is extremely serious and could if not dealt with see the complete failure and decimation of social care, leaving those in need of care, even more vulnerable than they already are.

So, if multiple actions are not taken social care will cease due to serious lack of funding and people to provide the care.

Should a miracle occur and Boris puts his hand in his pocket and provides the required funding, social care will still fail due to the serious staffing shortage.

So no Christmas Cheer for people in need of care, that is unless support is forthcoming for the petition, Solve the crisis in Social Care,

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/solve-the-crisis-in-social-care

 

 

England is facing another needless Brexit disaster: care home staff shortages | Care workers | The Guardian

Half of Europeans wrongly believe vaccines often cause serious side-effects | Euronews

Nearly half of Europeans incorrectly believe that vaccines often produce serious side-effects, according to an EU-wide poll that comes amid a global rise in cases of measles.

It follows reports that confidence in vaccines has declined in some parts of Europe as anti-vaccine groups gain traction in the political sphere.

Italy’s populist coalition last year suspended a requirement for parents to prove their children were vaccinated before starting nursery or pre-school.

Some 48% of those surveyed agreed with the false statement that vaccines often produce serious side-effects, the European Commission’s Special Eurobarometer on Vaccines discovered, compared to 41% who correctly said they don’t.

In more than half of EU countries, the incorrect figure was at least 50 percent, including in France and the UK.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that “serious adverse events occur rarely (on the order of one per thousands to one per millions of doses), and some are so rare that risk cannot be accurately assessed.”

As many as one in every five Italians, Austrians and Romanians believes vaccines are unimportant for wider social protection against diseases.

And across the EU, just over one third of those who do not bother with vaccines say it is because they do not see a need for it.

Major public health threat

Respondents aged between 15 and 24 are less likely than those in older age groups to say that measles (28%, compared with 34%-41%) or meningitis (43%, compared with 52%-58%) are still fatal diseases in the EU.

However, 85 percent of Europeans do believe vaccination is an effective way to prevent infectious diseases, the poll found.

 

Source: Half of Europeans wrongly believe vaccines often cause serious side-effects | Euronews