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Jan 2022
Shortage of care workers in Leeds blocks hospital beds
According to Leeds City Council, a shortage of care workers is blocking nearly 300 hospital beds in the city.
Cath Roff, Leeds City Council’s director of adults and health, said new staff were being sought, but it was challenging. She added that increasing supermarket wages meant people could work somewhere “less stressful, for more month”.
Speaking to the council’s adults and health scrutiny committee, Ms Roth said there were currently 293 people in the city’s hospitals who had “no reason to reside”.
She went on to say “We are having real problems with getting outflow from the hospital because of a very challenging situation both in social care and in community health services.
“With sickness absence kicking in, everybody is just maxed out and very stretched.”
Ms Roff added that hospitals were coping, but were opening up all their extra capacity and may need to utilise the city’s Nightingale hub.
“They are modelling on the peak of admissions hitting a week on Friday – there are about 253 people with Covid at the moment, 13 in ICU, and they are modelling on potentially up to about 350 people.”
The meeting heard home care providers were reducing the time spent with people and staff shortages meant that care homes were not operating at capacity.
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