There is an acute nursing shortage in this country. According to the CQC, nursing homes may need to re-register as residential homes, possibly due to the difficulty in recruiting enough nurses, which would have disastrous consequences for some of the country’s most vulnerable old people. With the looming prospect that Brexit will further restrict our ability to recruit nurses from Europe with the necessary skills and talent, does the Secretary of State agree that he needs to do everything he can to ensure that the nursing home sector does not collapse?
Social Care Funding
Proceeding contribution from
Janet Daby
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 October 2018.
It occurred during Opposition day on Social Care Funding.
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Session
2017-19
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