Government Covid funding for adult social care ends.
by Samuel, Mithran.
Publisher: 2022.ISSN: 03075508.Summary: Social care leaders have voiced concerns over the ending of Covid-19 funding for the sector. Funding to help care providers fund infection control and Covid testing, and for the NHS to fund free care for up to four weeks for people discharged from hospital with support needs, ended on 31 March, as did winter resources to help providers recruit and retain staff in the face of mounting pressures. Though the resources were always designed to be time-limited, social care bodies warned their removal carried significant risks for a fragile sector at the height of the latest Covid-19 wave. [Introduction].Journal Title: Community Care.Year: 2022.Date: (4 April 2022).Subject(s): social care | adults | Covid-19 | financing | financing | public expenditure | NHS | infection control | diagnostic tests | EnglandDigital copyAvailability: Online access List(s) this item appears in: Covid-19: health and social care recovery in England [January 2023]
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Social care leaders have voiced concerns over the ending of Covid-19 funding for the sector. Funding to help care providers fund infection control and Covid testing, and for the NHS to fund free care for up to four weeks for people discharged from hospital with support needs, ended on 31 March, as did winter resources to help providers recruit and retain staff in the face of mounting pressures. Though the resources were always designed to be time-limited, social care bodies warned their removal carried significant risks for a fragile sector at the height of the latest Covid-19 wave. [Introduction]
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