“How are they able to care properly for the people that need the care?”

Hello, it’s Gina from Liverpool.

I just finished watching a programme on television about the carers and how poorly they are paid, how poorly they’re trained. It’s a real dilemma, it’s just horrendous. I knew that it wasn’t good, but it’s far worse than I had expected it to be and it just shows how undervalued the carers are. So how are they able to care properly for the people that need the care? And I just feel as though we’ve got to do something about it.

You know, we’ve been to the House of Parliament over things before and I think this is something we need to return to those MPs to encourage them at least to look at the situation that carers are in and how with a little bit of extra help I’m sure people could be better trained for a start. That would be a really good starting point, that they have proper training.

Now I know that on the programme itself the people who owned these companies claimed that all of their carers did have sort of training, but it certainly didn’t show in the end result of the care to these patients, or the clients.

I don’t know what we’re going to do, but I’m not going to let it go and I’m sure there will be other people who use this device that will agree with me, and maybe we can get together and look at what we can do about it.

More to come! Bye.