The majority of people think care workers should be paid the same as pharmacy assistants and some other NHS workers, according to research by an organisation working to support people
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Four members of staff at a specialist hospital have been found guilty of mistreating vulnerable patients after an undercover BBC Panorama documentary. Five other staff members were cleared of all
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Government support for UK care homes during the pandemic was withdrawn too soon, according to a new study into the financial impact of Covid-19. The report, entitled Bailed Out and
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A disabled woman who died days after she was dropped by care home workers was a “victim of a catalogue of catastrophic failures”, her sister has told an inquest. Lyn
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A disabled woman lay on the floor moaning in pain for more than an hour and a half after being dropped by care home workers days before she died, an
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A former town councillor who tried to steal more than £430,000 through the Government’s Eat Out to Help out scheme has been jailed for two and a half years. Mohammed
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More than three-quarters of a million people in the UK with long Covid are likely to have first had the virus at least two years ago, new figures suggest. Some
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Bereaved families have raised concerns over the amount of time proposed by the UK Covid-19 inquiry to examine the response of the governments of Wales and Northern Ireland to the
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Millions of pounds of compensation promised by ministers to relatives of frontline health and social care workers who died during the pandemic may remain unclaimed, according to a union. Unison
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Boris Johnson deflected and blamed everyone but himself as he faced questions over partygate, a campaign group representing families bereaved in the pandemic said. It was described as “especially galling”
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