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,…
Fears social care costs cap will NEVER happen as PM and Jeremy Hunt prepare to delay flagship policy until after the next election
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Fears have been raised that the flagship cap on social care costs will never happen as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt prepare to announce a…
Birmingham carer caught 'manhandling' vulnerable man on CCTV
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A carer was caught ‘manhandling’ a vulnerable man on CCTV. Read More
Nottinghamshire care home rated inadequate by inspectors is closed
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A care home that saw one of its managers resign during an inspection is due to close. Read More
Oliver McGowan: NHS autism training mandatory after teen's death
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Mandatory training for treating people with autism and learning disabilities is being rolled out for NHS health and care staff after a…
Woman dies while undergoing IVF: 23-year-old Indian mother suffers rare complication which sent ovaries into overdrive and shut down her lungs
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Reading Time: < 1 minute A mother undergoing IVF died after suffering an extremely rare side effect, medics have revealed. Read More