Severe dehydration linked to over 1,000 care home deaths
More than 1,000 care home residents have died of thirst over the past decade, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Being left without water and
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Social services obtain court order to remove unborn child from women
A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section. Essex social services obtained a High Court order for the woman to be sedated and her baby daughter
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Zero tolerance knife campaign to launch
A zero tolerance campaign has been launched by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, aimed at cutting knife crime. Offenders caught with a knife in a public place will
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Aid charity calls for change of priorities over ‘materialistic’ Christmas
More than four-fifths of people in Scotland believe Christmas has become too materialistic, according to new research. A survey of 1,200 people for Scottish aid charity SCIAF found that 82%
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‘Gross neglect’ led to death of Leicester care home pensioner
A catalogue of failures which contributed to the death of an elderly care home resident who fell to the ground from a first floor landing amounted to “gross neglect”, a
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RDS ordered to make improvements to Marine House care home
A care home operator ordered to close a site in Inverness has been instructed to make urgent improvements at a property it runs on the Black Isle. Watchdog, the Care
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Lancashire nursing home staff guilty of abuse
Three care workers have been found guilty of abusing elderly residents of a care home in Lancashire. The female staff members at Hillcroft Nursing Home mocked, bullied and assaulted residents,
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Hayling Island care home workers ‘covered up injuries’
Three care home workers have been given suspended jail terms for covering up injuries suffered by a resident. Marie Abolins, Amy Byrne and Katie Middleton lied after 75-year-old Gloria Smith,
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Call for independent health regulation in Northern Ireland
A doctor who blew the whistle on unsafe practices during the Baby P abuse scandal has said Northern Ireland needs an independent health regulator. Dr Kim Holt made the call
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Bupa’s Pentland Hill care home ‘not improving enough’
A private nursing home under police investigation because of the deaths of four residents has until tomorrow to make urgent improvements or face closure. Inspectors issued Bupa’s Pentland Hill nursing
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