FFS £3,500 per week!

[Paddy]

FFS £3,500 per week!

The hospital charges taxpayers an average of £3,500 per patient per week and Castlebeck has an annual turnover of £90m

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[Ruprect]

FFS £3,500 per week!

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BBC News - Four arrests after patient abuse caught on film

In the wrong business

[SueEllen]

Southern Cross who look after old people are basically bust.

So yes you can win in the care business but you can also lose as care homes/hospitals are land and staff intensive. You have to provide 24 hour care for patients and you have a high turnover of staff as you have to pay them tulip otherwise you make no profit.

[TimberWolf]

For £3,500 a week you have a personal servant who is at your beck and call night and day, and rent a really nice house to house all your other servants and the stuff you could buy with all the money that is left over.

[MarillionFan]

For £3,500 a week you have a personal servant who is at your beck and call night and day, and rent a really nice house to house all your other servants and the stuff you could buy with all the money that is left over.

I only pay £1500 a week for my butler.

[EternalOptimist]

the missus runs a couple of teams of carers in Manchester

I dont know about the economics (i will try to find out), but one thing is for sure

the 'carers' don't 'care'

it's a minimum wage job, and I would say (hearsay) only 1 in five gives a sh1t


horror stories on demand - if you are interested

[Zippy]

Well, this one is a bit of toughie isn't it? The rational amoung us would think that for that kind of money a five star service would be offered.
It isn't of course, partly because profit has crept in to the equation. Care is a monopoly (hey we got that LA contract so feck 'em!), in part staffed by people who do not chose the job but are taken on 'cos they need the job. Minimum wage, not respected, no requirement to do a great job, not appreciated. I have known people who took on that job and did it with pride and professionalism but, sadly, not so much any more.
This kind of care needs to be taken away from profit centres, cost centres, private companies and taken back into where it belongs - the public sector. Maybe then we'll all care before some tv programme causes us all to start wringing our hands and bemoaning the fact that 'they' don't.

[SueEllen]

Well, this one is a bit of toughie isn't it? The rational amoung us would think that for that kind of money a five star service would be offered.
It isn't of course, partly because profit has crept in to the equation. Care is a monopoly (hey we got that LA contract so feck 'em!), in part staffed by people who do not chose the job but are taken on 'cos they need the job. Minimum wage, not respected, no requirement to do a great job, not appreciated. I have known people who took on that job and did it with pride and professionalism but, sadly, not so much any more.
This kind of care needs to be taken away from profit centres, cost centres, private companies and taken back into where it belongs - the public sector. Maybe then we'll all care before some tv programme causes us all to start wringing our hands and bemoaning the fact that 'they' don't.

The public sector isn't any better though hence why the private sector was brought in as a way to get rid of large institutions.

The program pointed out that:
1. The "carers" were earning more than minimum wage
2. The structured activities that the carers where suppose to do to entertain the patients were indaquate and boring for both parties.

The program also indicated that none of the patients where ill enough to be in a hospital and they should have been in residental homes.

[MarillionFan]

The whole question of care in the UK is interesting.

In other countries/cultures around the world, extended families care for their elderly parents, disabled, mentally handicapped. It seems only in the west, and extremely prevalent in the UK that come a point where someone cannot look after themselves we 'bang then up' in some dingy building looked after by minimum wagers who resent the fact they have crap jobs.

Odd.

[Scrag Meister]

FFS £3,500 per week!

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Come on, it's not such a bad rate.