Three workers at a care home have been suspended after an inquest highlighted mistakes made before a man’s death.

A Care worker took more than £5,000 from residents over nine months, a court heard. Myrtle Jean Lewis, who had debts of £30,000, pocketed residents’ cash that should have been used for rent.

The future of five Devon care homes hangs in the balance as council bosses today announced further details of a £100m privatisation deal.

A COUNCIL care worker who drew a crucifix on the wall of a home she feared was haunted has been disciplined.

Controversial plans to build a care home in Beeston look set to be approved. More than 30 letters opposing the proposals have been sent to Broxtowe Borough Council, which meets tonight to discuss the proposal.

Questions have continued to be asked over the care given to a city man who died after stepping in front of a train.

ENVIRONMENTAL health officers have been called in to investigate a Lostock care home after concerned relatives raised the alarm.

More than half of nurses on mental health wards have been physically attacked, a survey suggests.

Nurses working with older people are the most likely to be assaulted, the joint Healthcare Commission and Royal College of Psychiatrists report said.

The study of 69 NHS trusts and private hospitals in England and Wales said patients had also been attacked and more had to be done to stop violence.

Health bosses said the situation was taken “very seriously”. The audit covered eight in 10 of the organisations providing in-patient care for the 30,000 mental health patients in England and Wales.

Nurses, doctors, visitors and patients were all asked about whether they had suffered attacks, threats and what could be done about it.

Some 46% of nurses in mental health wards for working age patients said they had been assaulted. For those working in older people’s wards this rose to 64%.