Care chief calls for lessons to be learned after Norfolk ‘care hotel’ mismanaged public funds
Care England has called for lessons to be learned from a care hotel initiative which cost taxpayers £15,555 per care recipient during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Norfolk and Waveney CCG pursued a three-month pilot scheme in early 2022, to alleviate pressure on the NHS. The solution was to send 36 care recipients for an average of 16 weeks, to a hotel and to transform it into a ‘care hotel.’
Care England says that the ‘care hotel’ initiative represented mismanagement of public funds where vast sums were inappropriately spent and this was “wholly unacceptable.”
Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England said: “News that a Norfolk ‘care hotel’ cost £500k to treat just 36 people represents incredible mismanagement of funds.