#carehomes — Public Fediverse posts

Covid warning from pandemic legend Jonathan Van Tam – ‘defence can’t go to sleep’

Pandemic legend Jonathan Van Tam has warned Britain’s “defence can’t go to sleep” against Covid. The former deputy…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #CareHomes #Flu #GB #Heatwave #immunesystem #NHS #Nursinghomes #Surveillance #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/768541/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1200603/ Covid warning from pandemic legend Jonathan Van Tam – ‘defence can’t go to sleep’ #CareHomes #Flu #Health #Heatwave #ImmuneSystem #NHS #NursingHomes #Surveillance #UK #UnitedKingdom

Bosnia Charges Seven Over Deadly Fire at Tuzla Elderly People’s Care Home https://www.byteseu.com/2357793/ #Bosnia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BosniaHerzegovina #CareHomes #Herzegovina #PublicSafety #PublicServices

I'm listening to Today in Focus by the #Economist | The young and healthy Dutchman who moved into a care home.
Available on Podbean, and other platforms.
#TeunToebes #carehomes

podbean.com/ea/dir-4hnjg-3...

This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

#Profiteering off #children’: care firms in #England accused of squeezing cash from #councils

A #LocalAuthority leader claims #PrivateEquity groups are exploiting vulnerable youngsters in #CareHomes in the pursuit of #profit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/02/profiteering-off-children-care-firms-in-england-accused-of-squeezing-cash-from-councils
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Privatisation #ProfitBeforeCare