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A Greater Manchester care home owner, and former NHS doctor, is calling for more funding and a radical change in the way the government look after our elderly.
Dr Chai Patel CBE left the NHS and went on to launch HC-One care homes in 2011 – HC-One runs Richmond House in Leigh.
The founder, Dr Patel, left the medical profession because he found the care provided for old people in NHS run homes detached and degrading.
He said: “I left the NHS because of the impersonal and undignified geriatric wards and social care in old Local Authority homes which had more in common with Victorian workhouses than a home for anyone’s mother or father.”
http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/c...ondemns-way-nhs-look-after-elderly-impersonal
Dr Chai Patel CBE left the NHS and went on to launch HC-One care homes in 2011 – HC-One runs Richmond House in Leigh.
The founder, Dr Patel, left the medical profession because he found the care provided for old people in NHS run homes detached and degrading.
He said: “I left the NHS because of the impersonal and undignified geriatric wards and social care in old Local Authority homes which had more in common with Victorian workhouses than a home for anyone’s mother or father.”
http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/c...ondemns-way-nhs-look-after-elderly-impersonal