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 minuteIf 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 minuteCare 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 minuteFor 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 minuteAn 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 minuteThe 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 minuteHospital 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 minuteFears 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 minuteA 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 minuteA care home that saw one of its managers resign during an inspection is due to close. Read More