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UK Govt Coronavirus Response: Sceptics Thread


sancho panza

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You literally couldn't make this up.Our political class are just plain out of their depth.

So....the solution to the care crisis is to drive more of the staff from their jobs.

This one act of insisting on vaccinating all staff may make this winter's NHS crisis the worst ever.
 

3 SEP 2021

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/hundreds-home-care-services-refusing-21465037

Hundreds of home care services refusing care requests due to UK staff shortage

Home care providers are refusing to take on patients because they do not have enough staff

More than 200 managers have had to turn down requests for care in the last month because of insufficient staffing levels.

Reporting to The Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) managers have also revealed that they are handing back existing care packages as they're struggling to recruit.

 

Apparently providers are not adding any more names to waiting lists until January 2022 at the earliest, calling the situation “heartbreaking”.

Home care agencies provide a range of care and support in people’s homes.

This can include for people who need temporary support after being discharged from hospital, people of an older age, and disabled people who need help to live independently.

Joanna Mitchell, director of Your Care, which provides mainly palliative care, said she had to turn down around 30 care packages one morning this week.

 

She takes referrals from NHS community nurses and hospitals to help people live their final days at home, and said she is aware of one person locally who has been waiting more than six weeks for support.

The 55-year-old said the Kent-based company has been understaffed for three months, calling the workload “phenomenal”, and she has spent £2,000 on recruitment this month alone but cannot get suitable candidates to interview.

 
 
6th Sept 2021
 

 

Falkirk home care: Warning of service cuts because of chronic staff shortages

 

In July, around 40 per cent of all posts in the home care service were “sitting empty” either because of sickness or unfilled vacancies, members of Falkirk’s Integrated Joint Board (IJB) were told.

Demand is now so acute that at the last count 171 people were waiting for a care package – and despite urgent efforts to recruit more staff, the figure is still rising.

The crisis is also affecting care homes; at the time the report was written, seven care homes were not open to admissions, but by the time it was presented, that figure had risen to 11.

Head of integration, Martin Thom told the board that demand for care rose by 40 per cent this year, almost overwhelming a service that was already under severe pressure from staff shortages.

The recruitment issues are not just affecting Falkirk Council’s social care – many privately run companies are also so short-staffed that they have had to hand contracts back.

The IJB, which oversees the work of health and social care services in Falkirk heard the situation was so critical that in July the decision was taken to review all existing care packages, in order to prioritise those in most urgent need.

 
 

Councillor Allyson Black said: “This is a real crisis situation and I don’t think the public know how serious it is.

“We have this 40 per cent increase in demand and so few staff and the staff that we have got are so tired and demoralised as you can see from reports.

“It’s a huge worry for us and also for unpaid carers sitting at home with a reduced service.”

A recently announced review pledged to make changes that would make the home care service more efficient and less expensive.

 
 
 

Ms Black questioned if this was the right time for a review, given the emergency facing them.

But Mr Thom said that with almost one-third of staff over 55 years old, “new blood” is urgently needed or they would only be able to deliver critical services in 10 years time.

In particular, he said, it was time to look at why so many people will apply to be healthcare assistants, working for the NHS, while hardly any apply for social care posts, working for Falkirk Council.

“I know that money is an issue and I don’t think either personal carers or healthcare assistants are paid enough for the job that they do but the council actually pays slightly more at the basic grade,” he said.

 
 
 
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3 hours ago, sancho panza said:

Hundreds of home care services refusing care requests due to UK staff shortage

I believe the long-term plan is to "break" the care system so that families are forced to care for their relatives themselves.  They are certainly acting as if this is true.  Social care and the NHS are no longer affordable so something has to give.

Care homes will slowly go bust and LAs won't need to provide care for so many in their own homes.  It might free up a few houses too where single people who are cared for at home are rattling around in places which are much bigger than they need and they struggle to maintain.

 

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I psoted this in the deflation thread but well worth 15 mintues for those interested in the govt repsonse.

Dr Bailey pours scorn on the PCR test as a diagnostic tool,exposes the lack of science behind many of the claims that surround it's efficacy and the trail of moany that lies behind the testing regime.

The highlight is where she points out that Sars Covid 2 has never been isolated so the PCR test hasn't been calibrated to a specific disease.

 

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I believe the long-term plan is to "break" the care system so that families are forced to care for their relatives themselves.  They are certainly acting as if this is true.  Social care and the NHS are no longer affordable so something has to give.

Care homes will slowly go bust and LAs won't need to provide care for so many in their own homes.  It might free up a few houses too where single people who are cared for at home are rattling around in places which are much bigger than they need and they struggle to maintain.

 

Some may have cashflow problems but I suspect more will just have to hike prices to pay higher wages.

This winter will be awful I suspect.

 

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Australia.Oh the joys of living there....

Worth remembering that  Aussie exports of coal to China are banned.

So they're economy is screwed and they're performing the last rites over many small businesses.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9965233/Covid-19-Australia-Cops-swarm-Melbourne-synagogue-100-worshippers-celebrate-Jewish-New-Year.html

VICTORIA'S STATEWIDE LOCKDOWN - ALL THE RESTRICTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW

A lockdown for regional Victoria applies August 21 with restrictions in line with Melbourne minus the curfew. 

A curfew for those in Melbourne only includes: 

Between 9:00pm and 5:00am, you cannot leave your home (or the home of your intimate partner or bubble buddy) except for limited reasons including:

- authorised work

- health and medical purposes

- care and support of a child or someone with special needs

- in an emergency or to escape harm

Across Victoria you cannot leave your home other than for one of the five following reasons:

- shopping for necessary goods and services

- caregiving or compassionate reasons, including medical care or to get a COVID-19 test

- authorised work (with a permit) or permitted education

- exercise (once a day for 2 hours, no more than 5km from where you live)

- to get a COVID-19 vaccination

Victorians may also leave home to visit their intimate partner, their single social bubble buddy, or in an emergency – including those at risk of family violence.

You must stay within 5km of your home for shopping and exercise. This limit does not apply to permitted work or education, when giving or receiving care, getting a COVID-19 vaccination or visiting an intimate partner or your single social bubble buddy.

Residents of Metropolitan Melbourne must not travel to regional Victoria other than for permitted reasons. These include:

- for authorised work or permitted education

- to visit an intimate partner

- for care and compassionate reasons

- to access COVID-19 vaccination provided it is to the closest facility where vaccination can be obtained, or

- to access necessary good and services provided this is to the closest facility where these can be obtained. 

Face masks must be worn indoors and outdoors whenever you leave your home.

Public gatherings are not allowed across the state.  

Childcare will be limited to only essential workers and vulnerable families using a permit system that was used in 2020. 

Children at primary school are also asked to wear masks but this is not mandatory. 

Weddings cannot proceed and funerals are capped at 10 attendees. 

Across the state construction sites will only be allowed to have 25 per cent of their workers on site. 

Essential shops remain open. Cafes and pubs will be able to remain open for takeaway only. 

 

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Israel has 50'000 new infections a week, population about 9 million.

They are on their 3rd vaccine shots, looking at 4th shot by Christmas.

50 deaths per day at the moment..

blaming under 12s for spreading the virus,, (shot incoming no doubt)

Has vaccine passports for all venues, bars, restaurants etc..

Worth keeping an eye on it..

 

If the numbers continue I don't see the vaccine is working that well? 50 deaths per day..

UK Flu 2018 figures (spread over a year) Flu is about 80 deaths per day in the UK with a population of 67 million.. So 50 deaths per day seems quite high for 9 million population full of jabs..

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This is the sort of thing that has really undermined the MSM and the 'science'..........and sadly for them,it's basic maths.

Shocking that something like the ONS has become so politicised

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/09/14/why-is-the-ons-claiming-just-1-of-covid-deaths-are-in-the-vaccinated-when-phe-data-shows-the-true-figure-for-august-was-70/

The ONS has published a new study on Covid deaths which purports to show how few vaccinated people die of Covid. Here’s how the Telegraph reported the headline claim: “Only 59 fully vaccinated people without serious health conditions died from COVID-19 out of more than 50,000 deaths in England this year, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show.”

The Telegraph report continues:

In the first study of deaths by vaccination status, the ONS found that around 99% of COVID-19 deaths between January 2nd and July 2nd 2021 were in people who had not had two doses.

Overall 640 (1.2%) of deaths were in those who had received both vaccine doses, but the ONS said many of those could have been infections picked up before the second dose. 

Just 256 deaths (0.5%) were considered true “breakthrough” infections where the second dose had long enough to work, but still did not offer protection. 

However, the average age of those “breakthrough” infections was 84 and the majority (76%) were classed as “extremely clinically vulnerable”. Just 59 did not have serious medical conditions.

These statistics appear remarkable – until you realise what they’ve done. Although the data is presented as “this year” in fact the cut-off date is July 2nd. That is significant because it is just before the Delta surge got going. This means the data all comes from the Alpha surge, when almost no-one was vaccinated and tens of thousands of Covid deaths were reported, and from the quiet spring and early summer when many were vaccinated but almost no-one died (see chart below).

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Comparing the number of deaths in the vaccinated and unvaccinated over this period and presenting it as a percentage is meaningless and to imply it tells us anything about the effectiveness of the vaccines is misleading.

The important question is what the death rates were by vaccination status during the Delta surge, not prior to it.

Public Health England published a report last week which gave us this data for the period of August 9th to September 5th. Here is the table of deaths broken down by vaccination status and age.

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This shows that of 2,381 deaths in this period, 1,659 or 69.7%, more than two thirds, were in the double vaccinated. Six hundred deaths or 25.2% were in the unvaccinated. This is very different to the ONS statistics as quoted in the press that 99% of deaths were in those not double vaccinated. Yet no major media outlet compared or contrasted the ONS data with the PHE data released just days ago and asked why there was such a gaping discrepancy.

In the over-50s, the PHE report showed that 1,621 of 2,222 deaths or 73% were in the double vaccinated compared to 499 or 22.5% in the unvaccinated. Once you take into account the proportions of the over-50s vaccinated and unvaccinated this works out at a vaccine effectiveness against death of 68.1% – respectable, but a far cry from the kind of claims being made by the ONS and parroted by the media.

It’s not clear yet how well vaccine effectiveness is holding up against serious disease. Data from Israel indicates that it may drop to 55% in the over-65s over six months. The age profile of Covid patients in the U.K. has also been rising again, which may indicate declining efficacy.

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Elsewhere in their report the ONS did make an effort to allow for differences in age and week. They produced a graph of weekly age-standardised Covid mortality rates, which can be seen below.

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While this graph still suffers from ending on July 2nd, it does show us something potentially concerning about deaths following Covid vaccination. Note that in the early period deaths within 21 days of the first dose (light blue line, top chart) are significantly higher than deaths more than 21 days after the first dose, and in the later period deaths more than 21 days after the first dose are higher than in the unvaccinated (green line, bottom chart). Once you bear in mind that these charts are age-standardised, so age differences cannot be blamed, you realise they are showing you that the Covid death rate in the weeks following the first jab was disproportionately high. Why is this so? This appears to be another safety signal that warrants urgent investigation.

It’s depressing to see the ONS seemingly allowing itself to be used as a vehicle for the Government’s vaccine propaganda campaign. Its latest report is yet another study using out-of-date data purporting to show high vaccine effectiveness that is picked up by a press eager to push the vaccine-saviour narrative. Meanwhile, the real-world data from the U.K., Israel and elsewhere suggesting the reality during the Delta surge has been very different continues to be ignored. Are any of our once-trusted institutions safe from being co-opted into pushing the Government’s political agenda

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9 hours ago, sancho panza said:

It’s depressing to see the ONS seemingly allowing itself to be used as a vehicle for the Government’s vaccine propaganda campaign.

Regulatory capture or political capture, been happening everywhere.  I had my doubts about the ONS even before covid when the stopped producing certain data.  Very sad to see.

PS:  I'm undecided if SAGE is a case of political capture or a reverse takeover!

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Heart breaking stuff.Stage 4 diagnosis and another young life lost.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9990011/Mother-cancer-victim-says-daughter-alive-not-delays-getting-person-appointment.html

Woman, 27, died from liver cancer after GPs failed to spot tumour for five MONTHS during virtual appointments and refused to see her in-person because of Covid fears

 

The mother of a young woman who died from cancer has told MPs her daughter might still be alive if she was seen by her GP face-to-face.

Jessica Brady, 27, from Stevenage in Hertfordshire, passed away from liver cancer in December after a series of virtual appointments over the course of five months failed to spot her tumour.

Her mother, Andrea, told the Health and Social Care Committee today that Jessica was repeatedly denied an in-person appointment after first complaining of abdominal pain last summer, despite the epidemic being largely under control at that point.   

She was diagnosed with a kidney infection 'in the absence of any diagnostic testing or any physical examination at all' and prescribed with antibiotics

When she became extremely fatigued and her symptoms worsened, she was only prescribed more antibiotics, steroids, and an inhaler. 

One set of blood tests even revealed Jessica had high D-dimer levels, which can be a signal of solid cancers, the mother told MPs.

And subsequent tests identified concerns regarding her liver function – which her mother said makes sense now as she had liver cancer – but medics decided to wait six weeks to see what happened. 

Doctors didn't put 'the pieces of the jigsaw together' that it was cancer until five months later, by which point the cancer had spread around Jessica's body and become untreatable.  

It comes as Health Secretary Sajid Javid demanded 'more GPs should be offering face-to-face access' and 'we intend to do a lot more about it'.

Figures show a third fewer people in England are seeing a GP now than before the pandemic and tens of millions of appointments were 'lost' during Covid. 

Ms Brady revealed that Jessica was only finally seen in person by a GP when she bombarded her local surgery with more than 20 phone calls.

The family doctor told the family that Jessica 'probably needs a gastroscopy', her mother told the committee.

If this procedure – which involves a camera taking pictures inside the stomach – happened a few months earlier, her cancer 'wouldn't have spread so aggressively', Ms Brady said.

'Jess was a very gentle, sweet person, but she really did attribute her late diagnosis to the slow reaction of her GP surgery,' her mother added.  

Even after seeing a GP in-person, it was not until she sought private health care that she was diagnosed with stage four cancer of the lungs, bones, spine and liver.

She went to hospital on the day of her diagnosis and died three and a half weeks later on December 20. 

 

 

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5 hours ago, Oskar said:

Not sure if this has already been posted but whilst bored on a work call I found a spreadsheet on Public Health Scotland for deaths within 28 days of the jab. No idea if it is being kept up to date but is pretty scary all the same.

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-statistical-report/covid-19-statistical-report-23-june-2021/

Direct link to spreadsheet https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/8648/deaths-within-28-days-of-vaccination-2.xlsx

Over 5,000 deaths to mid June in The Democratic People's Republic of Scotland alone.

Got to store this one downhere for posterity.5521 deaths recorded within 28 days of covid vaccine in Scotland to June 21,probably the most apt measures to consider alongside deaths within 28 days of a covid +ve test.

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The man in charge of our vaccine programme......nice to see Labour turn up on behalf of taxpayers for once.

Greensill for Cameron,Hancock PPE contracts.........

@spygirl another in a long line

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/nadhim-zahawi-faces-serious-questions-21595920

Nadhim Zahawi faces 'serious questions' over whether he broke MP rules on wife's £3.5m estate deal

 

New Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi is being questioned over whether he broke MP rules by not declaring details of his family’s £100 million property empire.

A company owned by the Stratford-upon-Avon MP's wife bought the £3.5million “Chunnel Estate” near the Eurotunnel railway station in Kent in December, the Mirror reported - just days before the Government secured a Brexit trade deal, and Mr Zahawi had played a leading role in preparing companies for the changes.

This has led to Labour Party chair, Anneliese Dodds, writing to the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case demanding to know if Mr Zahawi discussed the purchase of the Chunnel Estate with his permanent secretary, reports The Mirror.

 

Mr Zahawi has not responded to Mirror questions about the deal, including whether he had discussions with the top civil servant at the Department for Business, as apparently required under the Ministerial Code.

Yet Sir Alastair Graham, the former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said: “This is a potential conflict of interest and should have been fully declared.”

 

Ms Dodds told the Mirror: “Nadhim Zahawi still has serious questions to answer about why his wife’s property firm was buying up warehouses in Dover while he was negotiating the final stages of the Brexit deal.

“The rules are clear: Mr Zahawi should have declared any conflict of interest to the civil servants at his department. If that didn’t happen, then it appears he has broken the ministerial code.

Under the terms of the ministerial code, ministers “must scrupulously avoid any danger of an actual or perceived conflict of interest between their ministerial position and their private financial interests”.

They are required to “provide their permanent secretary with a full list in writing of all interests which might be thought to give rise to a conflict”, including “interests of the minister’s spouse or partner”.

Mr Zahawi failed to respond to Mirror questions about his wife’s companies.

He transferred his 50 per cent stake in one of them, Zahawi and Zahawi Limited, when he became a minister in 2018.

His published declaration of ministers’ interests states: “Mr Zahawi’s wife is Director of several limited companies, including Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd, which own commercial and retail property.”

But it does not name two other companies she is a director of, using her maiden name Lana Jamil Saib.

The ministerial code, a set of rules and principles that outlines the standards of conduct for government ministers, states that: “Where appropriate, the Minister will meet the Permanent Secretary and the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests to agree action on the handling of interests.

“Ministers must record in writing what action has been taken, and provide the Permanent Secretary and the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests with a copy of that record.”

In her letter to Mr Case, Ms Dodds wrote: “I would be very grateful if you could clarify what discussions took place between Mr Zahawi and his Permanent Secretary to determine whether the Ministerial Code has been broken in this instance.

“If such a meeting did take place, then in the public interest can you share the minutes of it? If it did not take place, can you explain why not?”

She also asked “if Mr Zahawi did indeed provide his Permanent Secretary with a fuller list of his interests – including those additional companies of which his wife is a director”.

The Mirror found that the Zahawis’ property portfolio included £50m in commercial property bought since he became a minister in 2018.

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Truly staggering stat come in,hattip @dnb24

So basically,covid 19 has similar IFR to flu.....?

Not seen this in the mainstream press.

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/question/31381/coronavirus-death

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the covid-19 infection fatality rate.


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Jo Churchill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 27th August 2021

As of 15 July, Public Health England’s modelling group, with the MRC Biostats Unit, estimated that overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%.

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2 hours ago, sancho panza said:

Truly staggering stat come in,hattip @dnb24

So basically,covid 19 has similar IFR to flu.....?

Not seen this in the mainstream press.

https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/question/31381/coronavirus-death

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the covid-19 infection fatality rate.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 27th August 2021

As of 15 July, Public Health England’s modelling group, with the MRC Biostats Unit, estimated that overall infection mortality rate is approximately 0.096%.

Not at all, as almost no one died from flu last year so its many times worse. ;)

Thing is the govt know this stat yet continue taking us down the rabbit hole.

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https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/nadhim-zahawi-faces-serious-questions-21595920

Nadhim Zahawi faces 'serious questions' over whether he broke MP rules on wife's £3.5m estate deal

 

He has to be in the top 3 of the shiftiest Tory MP there are, he genuinely has no guilt about his self serving ways.

I really can't believe i did not take the 50k bounce back loan, as i thought it best to be honest ... when governed by this lot!

 

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You literally couldn't make this up.Our political class are just plain out of their depth.

So....the solution to the care crisis is to drive more of the staff from their jobs.

This one act of insisting on vaccinating all staff may make this winter's NHS crisis the worst ever.
 

3 SEP 2021

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/hundreds-home-care-services-refusing-21465037

Hundreds of home care services refusing care requests due to UK staff shortage

Home care providers are refusing to take on patients because they do not have enough staff

More than 200 managers have had to turn down requests for care in the last month because of insufficient staffing levels.

Reporting to The Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) managers have also revealed that they are handing back existing care packages as they're struggling to recruit.

 

Apparently providers are not adding any more names to waiting lists until January 2022 at the earliest, calling the situation “heartbreaking”.

Home care agencies provide a range of care and support in people’s homes.

This can include for people who need temporary support after being discharged from hospital, people of an older age, and disabled people who need help to live independently.

Joanna Mitchell, director of Your Care, which provides mainly palliative care, said she had to turn down around 30 care packages one morning this week.

 

She takes referrals from NHS community nurses and hospitals to help people live their final days at home, and said she is aware of one person locally who has been waiting more than six weeks for support.

The 55-year-old said the Kent-based company has been understaffed for three months, calling the workload “phenomenal”, and she has spent £2,000 on recruitment this month alone but cannot get suitable candidates to interview.

 
 
6th Sept 2021
 

 

Falkirk home care: Warning of service cuts because of chronic staff shortages

 

In July, around 40 per cent of all posts in the home care service were “sitting empty” either because of sickness or unfilled vacancies, members of Falkirk’s Integrated Joint Board (IJB) were told.

Demand is now so acute that at the last count 171 people were waiting for a care package – and despite urgent efforts to recruit more staff, the figure is still rising.

The crisis is also affecting care homes; at the time the report was written, seven care homes were not open to admissions, but by the time it was presented, that figure had risen to 11.

Head of integration, Martin Thom told the board that demand for care rose by 40 per cent this year, almost overwhelming a service that was already under severe pressure from staff shortages.

The recruitment issues are not just affecting Falkirk Council’s social care – many privately run companies are also so short-staffed that they have had to hand contracts back.

The IJB, which oversees the work of health and social care services in Falkirk heard the situation was so critical that in July the decision was taken to review all existing care packages, in order to prioritise those in most urgent need.

 
 

Councillor Allyson Black said: “This is a real crisis situation and I don’t think the public know how serious it is.

“We have this 40 per cent increase in demand and so few staff and the staff that we have got are so tired and demoralised as you can see from reports.

“It’s a huge worry for us and also for unpaid carers sitting at home with a reduced service.”

A recently announced review pledged to make changes that would make the home care service more efficient and less expensive.

 
 
 

Ms Black questioned if this was the right time for a review, given the emergency facing them.

But Mr Thom said that with almost one-third of staff over 55 years old, “new blood” is urgently needed or they would only be able to deliver critical services in 10 years time.

In particular, he said, it was time to look at why so many people will apply to be healthcare assistants, working for the NHS, while hardly any apply for social care posts, working for Falkirk Council.

“I know that money is an issue and I don’t think either personal carers or healthcare assistants are paid enough for the job that they do but the council actually pays slightly more at the basic grade,” he said.

 
 
 

 large part of the care crisis is councils/regulators grossly over speccing the care  requirements.

For most care residents, just having a room and few people around to keep an eye on them and give them their meals is fine - this is the regulation in place inthe 80s, when all the big houses started getting converted to OAP homes.

 

Over the years, theyve added more n more regulation, which seems to assume that every resident is a doubly incontinent quadriplegic with Alzheimer.

If they put effort into triaging patients and classifying levels of care - keep an eye on and meals, some lifting  required, OAP loony bin etc. then youd sort out the care crisis.

Equally, insisting  that anyone who needs care has to move with ~2 miles of a care support centre. Having  some low paid woman, running around in her own car over a 50 mile radius is nuts.

Dont ban home visits but insist that the OAP pays or the cost over, say, 2 miles.

And, end of the day, these people are going to die within several months.

 

 

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10 hours ago, sancho panza said:

The man in charge of our vaccine programme......nice to see Labour turn up on behalf of taxpayers for once.

Greensill for Cameron,Hancock PPE contracts.........

@spygirl another in a long line

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/nadhim-zahawi-faces-serious-questions-21595920

Nadhim Zahawi faces 'serious questions' over whether he broke MP rules on wife's £3.5m estate deal

 

New Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi is being questioned over whether he broke MP rules by not declaring details of his family’s £100 million property empire.

A company owned by the Stratford-upon-Avon MP's wife bought the £3.5million “Chunnel Estate” near the Eurotunnel railway station in Kent in December, the Mirror reported - just days before the Government secured a Brexit trade deal, and Mr Zahawi had played a leading role in preparing companies for the changes.

This has led to Labour Party chair, Anneliese Dodds, writing to the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case demanding to know if Mr Zahawi discussed the purchase of the Chunnel Estate with his permanent secretary, reports The Mirror.

 

Mr Zahawi has not responded to Mirror questions about the deal, including whether he had discussions with the top civil servant at the Department for Business, as apparently required under the Ministerial Code.

Yet Sir Alastair Graham, the former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said: “This is a potential conflict of interest and should have been fully declared.”

 

Ms Dodds told the Mirror: “Nadhim Zahawi still has serious questions to answer about why his wife’s property firm was buying up warehouses in Dover while he was negotiating the final stages of the Brexit deal.

“The rules are clear: Mr Zahawi should have declared any conflict of interest to the civil servants at his department. If that didn’t happen, then it appears he has broken the ministerial code.

Under the terms of the ministerial code, ministers “must scrupulously avoid any danger of an actual or perceived conflict of interest between their ministerial position and their private financial interests”.

They are required to “provide their permanent secretary with a full list in writing of all interests which might be thought to give rise to a conflict”, including “interests of the minister’s spouse or partner”.

Mr Zahawi failed to respond to Mirror questions about his wife’s companies.

He transferred his 50 per cent stake in one of them, Zahawi and Zahawi Limited, when he became a minister in 2018.

His published declaration of ministers’ interests states: “Mr Zahawi’s wife is Director of several limited companies, including Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd, which own commercial and retail property.”

But it does not name two other companies she is a director of, using her maiden name Lana Jamil Saib.

The ministerial code, a set of rules and principles that outlines the standards of conduct for government ministers, states that: “Where appropriate, the Minister will meet the Permanent Secretary and the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests to agree action on the handling of interests.

“Ministers must record in writing what action has been taken, and provide the Permanent Secretary and the independent adviser on Ministers’ interests with a copy of that record.”

In her letter to Mr Case, Ms Dodds wrote: “I would be very grateful if you could clarify what discussions took place between Mr Zahawi and his Permanent Secretary to determine whether the Ministerial Code has been broken in this instance.

“If such a meeting did take place, then in the public interest can you share the minutes of it? If it did not take place, can you explain why not?”

She also asked “if Mr Zahawi did indeed provide his Permanent Secretary with a fuller list of his interests – including those additional companies of which his wife is a director”.

The Mirror found that the Zahawis’ property portfolio included £50m in commercial property bought since he became a minister in 2018.

Yeah, hes dodgy.

I looked him up a while  back.

His story does not pass muster -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58582399

After studying chemical engineering at University College London, he followed in his father's entrepreneurial footsteps and set up a firm selling Teletubbies merchandise - a company which attracted investment from the then-Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer.

 

That alone is massive red flag.

You really dont want to be dealign with any person whos family were connected to any of the ME governments. They are all bent.

 

 

 

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34 minutes ago, macca said:

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/36/e2105709118

 

Birth rates fall during Pandemic 

United Kingdom, indicate that 73% of those planning to have a child in 2020 decided to delay or abandoned their plans entirely

economic impact? I guess mother care is already bankrupt so wont matter much to them..  Housing/moving house?

lots of couples will have been separated by government diktat and thus broken paid bonding.  Lots of others lost employment, income.  

If death rates climb this winter, expect a baby boom in 2022.  Death always drives the urge to fuck.

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