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Japan Times
23-07-2025
- Business
- Japan Times
As Japan grays, government looks to aid public-private cooperation in nursing care
The industry ministry is working to promote cooperation between private firms and local governments to ensure a stable supply of nursing care and elderly support services as demand increases in the graying country. The initiative is aimed at making it easier for companies to develop services in the fields by helping them understand demand in each region. In fiscal 2025, subsidies of up to ¥6 million ($40,800) will be provided to companies that work to develop services tailored to each region, such as by conducting surveys to learn about specific needs in cooperation with local governments. The ministry hopes to create model cases of public-private cooperation. The selected companies will be announced in mid-August. After their projects are completed, the companies will be asked to submit performance reports. As the population ages, the proportion of people who provide nursing care while working is on the rise, and demand for services not covered by insurance, such as helping elderly people with shopping, keeping an eye on them and accompanying them to hospital, is also expected to grow. Meanwhile, private-sector companies are often cautious about entering the market out of concern for their ability to figure out the needs for nursing care and elderly support. After obtaining information such as the number of elderly people and resident requests from local governments, the ministry aims to promote the development of sustainable services reflecting the needs of each region.
Washington Post
01-07-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
Avoiding your boss? In Japan, you can hire someone to quit your job for you.
TOKYO — Shota Shimizu slid on his headset and dialed the human resources department at his client's employer, a nursing care company. The client wanted to quit her job, and Shimizu was doing it for her. 'There was a mismatch between her expectations and the reality of the job,' Shimizu told the HR representative. 'She still has her uniform and locker key, and will return them by mail. Can we confirm your mailing address?'
BBC News
20-06-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Coroner's concerns over Cumberland Infirmary staff shortages
A coroner has raised concerns that a woman's death in hospital may be linked to an "understaffed and under pressure" coroner for Cumbria Margaret Taylor issued a prevention of future deaths report to the trust which runs the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle, following the death of a document urges the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) to take action after it emerged nurses were looking after 10 patients each instead of the expected six on the day Sarah Kathleen Hill trust said it "fully accepted" the coroner's findings and had implemented "learning points" raised in the report. The report said Mrs Hill, 78, had been admitted to hospital last November with gallstones, but a procedure to remove them only partly became increasingly unwell in the following days and collapsed while going to the same day she had an unwitnessed fall "at a time when she was meant to be closely observed", Ms Taylor said in her Hill became unresponsive and died the day after the fall. 'Understaffing not unusual' An inquest into her death held last month concluded she died as a result of "recognised complications of a necessary medical procedure".Ms Taylor said the evidence heard "revealed matters giving rise to concern about the standard of nursing care" that Mrs Hill raised concerns about the patient being left alone in a side room where she could not easily be checked on, adding there was a lack of evidence to suggest a falls risk assessment had been undertaken and a lack of frequent recorded observations warranted by Mrs Hill's Taylor added: "I was advised that the ward was understaffed and under pressure."She said although understaffing had been flagged, no help arrived on the ward."The evidence presented to me was that this was not an unusual situation on the ward," she said.A spokesman for NCIC offered their condolences to Mrs Hill's family."We fully accept the findings from the coroner and have implemented the learning points raised in the report," they trust must respond to the coroner's concerns by 22 July, detailing which actions it intends to take to address them. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
01-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Jersey charity breaks ground on complex needs facility
A charity which supports people with learning disabilities in Jersey has put the first spades in the ground at its new will start work on Monday to turn a property in Trinity into a five-bedroom nursing and complex needs site at La Rue de Bechet will help islanders who have additional needs access nursing said the project, which is due to be completed in July 2026, will cost £3.5 million. The scheme comes after a previous development by Les Amis for a specialist long-term nursing home was stopped due to commissioning Findlay, managing director of Les Amis, said he was confident the new project would be completed as it was smaller and most of the required funding was already he said it was a complicated project which meant costs were higher than other housing developments. "Internally, it will have to be clinically sound, just as the new hospital will have to be… it means the bill costs are higher than your normal domestic build." He said the centre would enable the charity to continue to care for those it support when their nursing needs became more complex."That includes end-of-life care, something that's not possible in our group residential homes. "Les Amis is often the only 'family' that some of our elderly residents have because we've supported them for most of their adult lives," he constable Philip Le Sueur said it has been "a great joy" to work with Les Amis."It is an island-wide facility," he said. "The setting here and the backdrop into the valley will provide a beautiful, peaceful, calming place which is just right for the people who will be living here."Les Amis chairman and trustee Leslie Norman MBE said the start of the project was "the perfect way to celebrate our 50th anniversary year".
