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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

Social care volunteers ‘must not be used to overlook workforce issues’

PA Wire

Social care leaders have warned that using volunteers to take medicines and prescriptions to people must not be a distraction to “systematic, Government-induced issues” impacting the struggling sector.

A volunteer programme for the NHS is being expanded into social care, with those who sign up offering support to people receiving care from local services in their community, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced.

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