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April 18, 2024BMJ

Can a worker cooperative model of social care improve the patient experience and reduce pressure on GPs?

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Chronically underfunded and with hundreds of thousands of roles vacant, social care is in crisis, piling pressure on frontline services and GPs. One solution comes from an old idea: a care workers' cooperative. Sally Howard reports

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synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6e8bdb6db6435876643f9 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q783

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