A review of standards at a Herefordshire nursing home has highlighted “major concerns” over care.

THE latest phase of a £3.1m shake-up of adult social care in Liverpool is due to be approved today.

Government pledges sufficient funds to rehouse those forced out and assist others whose homes have been damaged

Social workers responding to a recent online survey have been damning in their condemnation of Adult Services residential and nursing home care, with the majority of respondents reporting that they had witnessed instances of ‘extreme abuse’.

A social worker who was banned from practising by the General Social Care Council has won an appeal against removal from the social care register.

THE owners of a care home where inspectors found “appalling hygiene” must make immediate improvements or face further action.

A second care home in Bristol, owned by the company at the centre of allegations of abuse of vulnerable patients, is to close.

HEALTH chiefs are considering closing nearly a third of hospital beds for people suffering from severe mental illness in Hampshire in a bid to save £4.5m over three years.

Ray King, chief executive of medical group Bupa, has called for a “chronic underfunding” of the care homes system to be addressed “urgently”.

A CARE home for the disabled at the centre of abuse claims has been backed by residents’ loved ones.