A nurse accused of ‘malicious abuse and violence’ towards Plymouth care home residents was yesterday told he will remain banned from the profession pending a full hearing.

An innovative new scheme has been tested in Yorkshire to highlight the experiences that people with learning disabilities encounter in hospitals.

A Care worker accused of hitting an 86-year-old woman in the face was cleared yesterday after medical experts agreed that her injuries could have been caused accidentally.

A CARE worker at a nursing home hit a wheelchair-bound pensioner and used soiled water to clean another resident’s teeth.

Round the clock care for dementia patients will be provided by a new Worcestershire facility if a charity’s plans become a reality.

THE manager of a sheltered housing scheme fears she has lost her job and her home – for caring too much.

The government has ordered a review of how schools should educate the country’s estimated 300,000 dyslexic children, after admitting that many are being left to flounder without tailored teaching.

Survivors of child abuse may be more likely to kill themselves as adults because their early experiences change the way a critical gene works in the brain, according to new research that could shed light on the biology of suicide.

Foster carers are urgently needed in Derbyshire for children over five years old, according to figures released by a children’s charity.

AN innocent care worker was shot dead as she walked into a “Wild West” shoot out between two teen­agers, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.