Care Home Funding Coronavirus

Care homes across the uk are struggling to afford ppe with local councils and government slow to up their funding itv news has found.
Care home funding coronavirus. The government has announced a new care homes support package backed by a 600 million adult social care infection control fund. This has been introduced to tackle the spread of covid 19 in care. Some care costs are capped in wales and home care is free for the over. Several councils threatened to withhold funding to help care homes deal with the coronavirus outbreak if they didn t agree to take in covid 19 patients sky news can reveal.
Covid 19 continues to present an unprecedented challenge for social care. Nursing and personal care homes say more funding is needed to help them keep the state s seniors safe from covid 19 as well as remain fiscally afloat. The plan for free personal care which is already available in scotland could have cost as much as 10bn in the first year. Video report by itv news political correspondent paul brand.
Since this pandemic began we have been working flat out to support the social care sector drawing on. Greens leader adam bandt will call for a 3 billion federal investment in aged care to increase medical help for older australians and scale back the rise of facilities driven by profit. The funding will help patients who no longer need urgent hospital treatment to return home making at least 15 000 beds available during the coronavirus outbreak.