Care boss in tears as workers sent 300 coronavirus masks despite doing despite 24,000 home visits a week
A CARE boss was reduced to tears after she was sent just 300 single-use coronavirus masks – despite her team carrying out 24,000 home visits each week.
Alison Horne, Operations Director at “Care by US”, said her staff is under “enormous pressure” as they battle the deadly bug on the frontline.
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She has urged the country to “get behind” the social care system which has been pushed to the brink during the pandemic.
Staff numbers have reduced dramatically with many self-isolating as Britain’s death toll hit 2,392, with a further 29,000 infected.
NHS hospitals are desperately trying to deal with the rising numbers of Covid-19 patients and people are typically sent home when care in hospital is no longer needed.
This puts a huge strain on the care system, with one team carrying out 24,000 home visits every seven days.
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Yesterday, Michael Gove admitted the Government must go "further, faster" to increase testing capacity for the killer bug.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "We are clear that no wholesaler has been asked to prioritise NHS provision over the care sector.
"In the past two weeks the NHS Supply Chain have delivered 170 million pieces of PPE equipment and in the last four days alone we have seen the delivery of 42.8 million gloves, 23 million surgical face masks, 1 million FFP3 masks, 13.7 million aprons and 182,000 gowns.”