But one Norfolk carer said when she worked for a previous employer, she would sometimes have to spend less than 15 minutes with clients.

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She said that researchers needed to spend "more time on work and less time on administration".

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The biggest obstacle to Ms Rousseff's plans to spend less day to day, in order to invest in the infrastructure for which she hopes to be remembered, will be her fellow politicians.

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