NHS to buy care beds to make space in hospitals
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Thousands of NHS patients in England will be moved into care homes as part of the government’s plan to ease unprecedented pressure…
NHS to move thousands of patients to care homes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The NHS will spend hundreds of millions of pounds moving patients into care homes in a bid to ease pressure on A&E wards,…
Murder arrest in Newham after second care home resident killed in London within one night
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A 21-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow resident at an east London care home. Read More
Care homes locking down over flu and norovirus, relatives claim
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Care home providers have been accused of flouting official guidance by going into lockdown over outbreaks of flu and norovirus, Read More
It’s not just a lack of social care that’s keeping older people trapped in hospital beds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re an older person in hospital right now waiting for social care to help get you home, then you’re in trouble….
Care workers hit back at Matt Hancock’s claim staff brought Covid to care homes
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Care workers have hit back at claims by the former health secretary Matt Hancock that the Covid virus was brought into homes by…
Care for UK’s most vulnerable faces ‘collapse’ as providers count cost
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Reading Time: < 1 minute For several years now, as austerity sucked billions out of social care, the highly specialised UK social care system for adults with…
85-year-old's fingers bitten to bone in crazed care home attack that lasted almost an hour
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Reading Time: < 1 minute An 85-year-old man was brutally beaten by a fellow care home resident in what his family described as a crazed attack that…
Delay to £86k care spending cap is a 'betrayal' of older people, who may now pay tens of thousands extra before 2025 launch date, say critics
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Government is under fire for postponing the launch of a £86,000 lifetime care spending cap until autumn 2025. Read More
Care home places should be paid for by NHS hospitals to ease gridlock of patients, Labour says
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hospital bosses should raid their NHS budgets to pay for care home places so patients do not remain stuck on ‘lobster trap’ wards,…