Let's Talk About Care Jill Rennie, Sue Learner & Angeline Albert

Host Jill Rennie talks to Dr Jane Townson about care workers being denied sick pay because the government has scrapped the infection control fund exacerbating workforce shortages, the problems providers are currently having when they try to recruit overseas care workers and how future technology used through the power of television could be a way to maintain people’s health at home.

Antony Loveless and former nurse Claire Hooper say long Covid left them bedbound throughout 2021. 

Host Sue Learner talks to Amanda Woodvine about the importance of respecting the beliefs of older vegetarians and vegans living in care homes, many of whom have dementia and will have forgotten they don't eat meat

Host Jill Rennie talks to Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum (NCF) about how social care is viewed in the eyes of the government since the pandemic, how the government should have handled the mandatory vaccine policy and how technology will play an integral role in the future of social care.

Host Sue Learner talks to Camille Leavold, managing director of Abbots Care, a home care provider in the south east of England, about how they have been coping during the pandemic, what she thinks of mandatory vaccination for home care workers and her solution for the recruitment crisis.

Traumatic brain injury expert Dr Willie Stewart  says footballs should be sold with a health warning and the global rules of game must change as his study  reveals professional footballers have a 5 times higher risk of getting Alzheimer's than the  public because of headers.