A story about British Social Care…. I recently shadowed a community nurse. I watched as she worked to enable a man with only one  week left of his life to be carried from his bedroom to a downstairs living room where on the TV was  football – his joy.   It took three hours of searching for her to find the assistance she needed, until  finally, an ambulance crew volunteered to help after their shift was over, to make the man’s hope come true. They were thanked with a large tin of biscuits funded by the community nurse herself. Read more