Management at The Alexander Court Care Home in Harrogate are taking steps to remove all nursing patients from their home. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) re-visited the home on 8
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The Care Inspectorate has served a formal Improvement Notice on an Ayrshire care home. The move comes following an unannounced inspection at Woodside House Care Home in Mauchline which found
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Following an unannounced inspection, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned a Bristol care home it needs to make “urgent improvements”. Sunnymead Manor, in the Southmead area of Bristol, was
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A care worker has been arrested following allegations of abuse against elderly residents at a nursing home in Trafford, Manchester. The 30-year-old man was arrested at his house on suspicion
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Essex County Council removed all of its residents from seven care homes in the past five years because of safety and welfare concerns, it has emerged. The details were published
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Failing care homes could be put into a similar failure regime as poor-performing hospitals, the Health Secretary is to announce. Jeremy Hunt will say that most of the hospital trusts
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A private nursing home for the elderly in County Fermanagh is to close at the end of the month with up to 40 full and part-time staff set to lose
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A Welsh care company that employed a woman who defrauded a pensioner out of more than £6,000 is to be struck off the professional register. Porthmadog-based Gofal Gwynedd has been
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A row has broken out over the closure of Leicester’s Fosse Court Care Home, with the owners claiming they were subject to “inappropriate pressure” by inspectors. Central to the problems
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A care home which was severely criticised by inspectors for neglect, unsafe practices and poor conditions has closed. Concerns were raised during an inspection by the Care Social Services Inspectorate
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