An article examined users’ experiences of care in a range of settings, by combining data from four studies where participants were older people living in care homes or extra care
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The Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland, Claire Keatinge, has announced that she will be making recommendations to the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety about changes
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Cairndhu House Nursing Home has been fined £8,000 after the death of an elderly resident who became trapped between her mattress and a bed rail. Marjory Black, 85, had fallen
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A senior care home nurse is to face a Nursing and Midwifery Council(NMC) conduct and competence committee relating the death of an elderly woman who died two days after being
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People using adult social care services in Scotland will have the opportunity to share and compare their experiences when a new website, Care Opinion, launches this autumn. The one-year pilot
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A care home in South Lanarkshire has been served with a formal improvement notice by Scotland’s social care regulator, the Care Inspectorate. The notice, served on New Monteith House Care
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Police have made an arrest after several people from a care home in West Bromwich were taken ill with symptoms similar to food poisoning. The arrest was made at Goldfield
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Scottish Care, the umbrella group which represents independent care home providers, is seeking a Judicial Review over the way Glasgow City Council is offering contracts to care homes. The local
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A nursing home in Northamptonshire has been referred to the Health & Safety Executive after an inspection found it was running scalding hot water into its baths without staff realising.
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A care worker who force-fed and verbally abused a dementia sufferer in an Angus care home has been struck off. An inquiry panel found Christine Spence abused the resident of
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