LOCAL authorities have been warned to plan for the worst case scenario amid fears that the UK’s biggest independent health care firm – which runs more than 70 North-East care homes – faces financial collapse.

THE family of an 84-year-old dementia sufferer – who was punched and slapped by an angry care home worker after she lost her temper – say justice has been done.

Fresh allegations have been made about a nursing home where two careworkers were sacked for posting pictures of a resident online.

THE leader of the Isle of Wight Council has rejected calls for him to stand down after the authority’s social care cuts were branded unlawful.

A generation of elderly people face a “tragedy” of worsening care after the number of nursing home companies collapsing through lack of funds doubled in a year, research has found.

Southern Cross joined by more than 70 smaller companies as care crisis widens

Government-led policies on alcohol throughout the UK have been branded a joke by the chief executive of the charity the British Liver Trust.

Recent court case will be first of many, according to the service provider for over 50s

New website aims to provide residents with information on health and social care services in the area

Report into death of disabled woman killed by ‘friends’ concludes murder not predictable but agencies missed ‘number of opportunities’ to intervene