Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care

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I particularly enjoyed the section at the end of each chapter, where Bunting explores our changing understanding of the word “care” by offering definitions of associated words and examining their historical context. Perennials PERENNIALS constant friends A selection of novels, memoirs and more by some of our favourite authors. Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks. She meant it as a warning in the face of “a crisis of unprecedented proportions” in the provision of health and social care across the UK.

As we face a second wave of Covid-19, there are more proposals for reinvestment in the care economy, for the redesign of welfare, for collective solutions that might revalue jobs in care. Remarkables REMARKABLES Intriguing, stunning, or otherwise remarkable books These include fine editions, foreign publications exceptional for their interest or production, special editions and some first-rate books from very small publishers.As so many aspects of our lives become automated, love and care is one that will continue to need humanity to deliver it and all those who work in it deserve our support. A further dimension of the health and social care crisis Bunting explores in her book relates to its commercialisation. It is slow paced – unsurprisingly considering the scope and wight of the material – but still gripping. The author of 'The Queen of Whale Key' and 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' has found a new subject with which to amaze us: the case of the 'Croydon Poltergeist' and its investigation by the N. Every single person in the country should read this book, to understand some of the experiences of people who work in the health and social care sector, why they do it, and the huge value of the work that they do.

Nurses must employ reason and emotion, competence and compassion, and act with efficiency and humanity. Photograph: Lisa Miller/ "Hold Still" National Portrait Gallery Exhibition View image in fullscreen ‘It cannot easily be measured.Whether in surgeries or hospitals, she finds that underfunding and bureaucratic surveillance leaves doctors and nurses vastly overworked, doing as much form-filling as patient care, leading to burnout, staff losses and recruitment failures. Immigration has filled labour gaps, but in the aftermath of Brexit (and the COVID-19 pandemic) many sources of migrant workers have dried up. Bunting collates compelling stories from across the care sector to celebrate the tenacity, sacrifice and achievements of its employees, to critique the unsustainable system they work in and to offer an elegiac analysis of what it means to care and be cared for in modern England. Surely this is the lesson of 2020, as Bunting suggests in her preface, whilst conveying the hope that the pandemic may indeed engender change. As we seek to rebuild society post-pandemic, this book suggests a possible future where investment in care is an economic, as well as a moral, imperative.