My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues.
Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3
May 13, 2025 09:56I have no issue with trying to increase % of care workers born in Britain and to increase pay and improve working conditions.
But we must ALSO acknowledge the tremendous contribution that care workers from overseas have made and are making to our country and our most vulnerable citizens. 2/3
AND acknowledge that a large pool of British potential care workers is not readily apparent (~130K vacancies in care sector).
As the daughter of UK migrants, as someone who works with 1st & 2nd gen immigrants across health & academia, I am also v offended at language of "incalculable harm". 3/3
I couldn’t agree more. Starmer’s speech was offensive and insulting to people who have come here to work extremely hard for little money.
Our carers,EMS,Hospital Staff,GP Staff and so many more deserve oh so so much better for the humanity they put into the jobs that they do.
A lot of workers have moved here on the care visa path over the last few years so it’s not clear why there should still an ongoing need for more. Maybe those already here have moved on to better paid jobs? Anyway this is all because of the 30 year failure to fix the funding of social care.
My dead husband received the best hospital care from non UK born nurses.
UK nurses fine but not the best.
One was particularly cruel and kept refusing pain meds to him, despite him having days to live.
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