People with learning disabilities are dying young from preventable causes due to disjointed access to health checks, a think tank has warned. The Nuffield Trust described the situation as “appalling”
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The next government has been urged to make social care a priority after years of reform being “consistently dodged or delayed”, a thinktank has said. In its annual Social Care
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Some people with profound and multiple learning disabilities will die earlier or suffer lifelong problems because care they needed was interrupted during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish
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Boris Johnson was like the “absent manager” of a football team during the pandemic, a public inquiry has heard. Mark Drakeford, the outgoing Labour First Minister for Wales, heavily criticised
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Welsh people were treated like “second-class citizens” by the UK Government during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. Baroness Eluned Morgan, the Welsh Labour health minister – who took over
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A woman whose father died of Covid-19 while in hospital said she felt he was viewed as “disposable”. Melanie Hunter’s father, John Cowan was placed on a do not resuscitate
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Police who have removed the bodies of 35 people and the suspected ashes of a number of others from a funeral directors have said they are investigating a “truly horrific
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Thousands of blind and partially sighted people are being denied their right to support after sight loss, a charity has said. A new report by the sight-loss charity RNIB suggests
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Actor James Nesbitt has launched Marie Curie’s annual Great Daffodil Appeal in Belfast. The star, from Coleraine, met Marie Curie volunteers, whom he described as “the lifeblood” of the charity,
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The UK Government not sharing information led to delays in introducing testing for care home residents in Wales during the pandemic, an inquiry has been told. Vaughan Gething (pictured), the
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