Trying to understand the Government’s guidance on support for care homes and infection control measures has been like “trying to construct a piece of Ikea furniture with a piece missing”,
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Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has apologised to a woman who said navigating the social care system with her mother was the most difficult thing she has ever faced in
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A minister has become embroiled in a row after apparently saying that policies blamed for the high rate of Covid-19 deaths in care homes were based on scientific advice. The
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Child protection cases may “surge” as Covid-19 lockdown restrictions are eased, the most senior family judge in England and Wales has warned. The president of the Family Division, Sir Andrew
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The “unfair and woefully out of date” social care sector must be radically reformed but not by making it free for all as part of the NHS, a think tank
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Doctors and campaigners have launched a High Court challenge against the Government over its refusal to hold an urgent public inquiry into PPE shortages. A claim for judicial review has
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The family of a disabled man say they have been “completely forgotten about” after they were told to source protective equipment for his NHS-funded carers themselves – despite inflated prices
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A care home manager who stole nearly £11,000 from an 81-year-old dementia sufferer to pay off her daughter’s loans has been spared jail. Carol Weeks got hold of the vulnerable
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As many as one in five coronavirus swab tests could give false negative readings, MPs have heard. Baroness Dido Harding, head of the NHS Test and Trace programme, was challenged
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The UK’s coronavirus death toll passed 50,000 and the country was warned to be braced for “many job losses” as the human and economic cost of the outbreak became clearer.
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