Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from on (#6C2YE)
Exclusive: volunteers sought in England to take equipment and drugs to people's homes among other tasks
Health ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people's homes in a bid to free up congested hospital wards.
The plan will also see volunteers sent to, though not into, people's homes to tackle loneliness and carry out shopping and other errands.
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