The NHS faces a bleak winter
Hospitals are in a dire state—and temperatures are only just starting to drop
HOW MUCH is the local Amazon warehouse paying? Raina Summerson used to ask that question a couple of times a year. Now her firm checks most weeks, such is the competition for workers. In parts of the country she has raised pay at Agincare, the care provider she runs, to £11 ($15) an hour from around £9.50 before covid-19 struck. Even so carers are scarce: “We are turning away work every day in every one of our locations.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The dead of winter”
Britain November 20th 2021
- The NHS faces a bleak winter
- Azeem Rafiq claims anti-Asian abuse is widespread in English cricket
- British Indians are emerging as an important group of swing voters
- Britain’s economy does not lack oomph, but productivity is lagging
- Britain’s inequalities are spelt out in its surnames
- The government wants to ensure that tax breaks for freeports aren’t wasted
- Britain’s establishment has split into two, each convinced it is the underdog
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