Dunoon care workers have featured in BBC documentary highlighting the “challenges and pressures” of the job.

Carr Gomm’s Dunoon Mobile Homecare Responder Team have appeared in the three-part documentary Darren McGarvey: The State We’re In.

Focusing on health, Darren goes on shift with support practitioners Tiffany McArthur and Alison Minton and meets Dunoon residents John and Anne.

Alison said: “I do think it’s time for all the younger ones coming through this sector, that they see it as a really good sector to come into and they’re paid accordingly.”

The episode looks at the health and social care system and considers how supporting people to live safely and well in their homes can reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and re-admissions.

Carr Gomm’s chief executive, Lucy Wren, said: “It is important that we all understand the challenges and pressures of delivering health and social care today, and this programme highlights how an organisation like Carr Gomm can be part of helping the system to work.

“Most people want to be cared for at home and only see hospital as the last place to go for a specific treatment.

“All parts of the health and social care system need funding to deliver the complimentary support to all the other parts.”

The series examines public services in the UK, with other episodes looking into justice and education.

The episode on health can be currently viewed on BBC iPlayer, and will be aired on BBC Scotland on Tuesday, March 12 at 10pm, and on BBC Two on Thursday, March 14 at 9pm.