article_snippet.sent: Almost a quarter – 24 per cent
article_snippet.sent: More than three-quarters asked for more training to cope with the extra procedures but only 49 per cent had received any.
article_snippet.sent: Other findings include that more than half of home carers have not been shown how to care for people with colostomy bags and 45 per cent have not been trained to change a catheter bag.
article_snippet.sent: Nearly four in ten had not been shown how to carry out peg feeding, where food is inserted directly into the stomach via a tube.