AIBU to think care staff shouldn’t be drinking and taking work calls in Wetherspoons?

It's not even just that, care staff are regulated and have codes of practice they are breaching if they are discussing service users in a pub environment and can be overheard. Those standards exist for a reason. Whether you (not you, you generally) personally can identify the service user is irrelevant.

Their jobs are hard enough that they have to take work calls while on their break, I don't think they need your judgement on top of that.

I used to do home visits (not caring) with no car and regularly had to find a place to do my admin. And spoons hit the bill. If there was not one sometimes I ended up some rough and ready pubs and sometimes I had half a Guinness. On account of me being a grown woman.

Would you complain if men in high Vis and building site attire were in there? They could be going back to work later too?

I once overheard a receptionist discussing my grandma being in a morgue.

She shouted it across to her colleagues and everyone could hear. I was actually waiting to see the GP at the time due to stress (and grief!)

Even though it was jarring I still didn't report / mention it

YABU. Live and let live

They should be sacked. There's no excuse for Wetherspoons.....

If their pictures are on the website they are manager level and unlikely to be using a hoist after the pub, more likely they were taking calls from people on the job seeking advice? Seems strange that there was such a level of calls and personal information flying around though that it has triggered the OP, most spoons are loud as fuck with people rambling away a lot of shite into their phones, the OP must have been right in close to the table to pick up all this confidential stuff?

Building sites don"t tolerate drinking now, 40 years ago you would see people half cut at lunchtime in site gear with company names on the back, sometimes driving company vehicles. This lot are managers if their faces are on the company website, their jobs are not hard at all, not like working down a coal mine is it, poor things being forced to get tanked up in a spoons just so they can shout service users names across the room and keep out of the rain.

But you probably weren't talking about patients on your phone (yes phones existed in 2006, but people didn't tend to take work calls on them in the pub much).
Thought Wetherspoons were banning noisy conversations now anyway. But OP, if a health/care worker reveals personal details, it's not ok, and depending how much they drank, if they're driving, or compromising safeguarding, it is everyone's business.

I wouldn't consider it to be my business to make a moral judgement about who should and shouldn't be allowed to drink. A brain surgeon might be getting drunk somewhere on his break but it certainly wouldn't be Spoons.

Some people’s standards are so low they’re on the floor.

If they were taking work calls which involve mentioning names of clients that surely constitutes misconduct.

I wouldn’t raise it with the company because there might well be a grievance going on about how they’re being pressured into completing work after hours - no one else would know. But if that’s not the case there is no excuse for such unprofessional behaviour,

The main thing here is whether or not they actually publicly disclosed info that allows the service users to be identified. Not whether if they had mentioned such info it could be overheard, or whether if such info had been on their tablet screen then it could be seen, but whether they did actually do that. Because from what you've said so far it seems that all you managed to glean is that they worked for a care company that has a phone number and some patients.

A brain surgeon ( or pilot etc.) should be sacked for that, breaks are still company time, no care worker should be drinking on duty but this lot are obviously not on a shift in a spoons, but they are being a bit loose with the personal info it seems, however the average person in a spoons wouldn"t know or care what they are talking about, unless maybe they heard their relatives name being thrown about?

Yes, they would need to be sharing personal info in a way that it could be heard clearly or recorded, or mocking a client/resident, that could be more serious if someone who knew the service user overheard. There was an incident I heard about where a woman had posted all over FB with photos from her phone about two African care workers "mocking" a man in a wheelchair, turns out that this was a communication style of banter that the man liked, post was removed pretty quickly, company was named as well I seem to remember. You need to be careful when nosing into other people"s communication, just because someone has a website for a company open, they could be talking about their own son or daughter on the phone, how does the OP know they are talking about people they care for?

Tell a manager at the company. Unacceptable.

What do you expect in a spoons?

I work in the NHS. We would not be allowed to drink during the working day or share patient-identifying information in a public place. We have training annually about this. I am sure care staff would be the same.

It is wrong but I would not report it. But members of the public do report (?OP) so they need to be careful.

Spoons is a care home isn’t it? In fact it’s a very reasonably priced and excellently run care home.