HSE curbs home help service: Wanted- Money for vital helpers

Do governments and corporations have niche departments charged with inventing new, impressive names for jobs that sound humdrum in a boring, 20th century kind of way? Perhaps that sort of creative task is outsourced for agreeable fees to image consultants?

The exciting news for home helps — and the people who rely on them — is they’re now to be known as health care support assistants. The very disturbing news, however, is that our vital home-help service is to be restricted severely until the autumn, and possibly beyond, given that the Government is working on a “template” for what the service might look like by the year’s end.