A healthcare charity has been fined £40,000 over the death of a mentally ill teenager. Sophie Bennett, 19, was found hanged in a bathroom in Lancaster Lodge, a residential care
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A social services department failed the residents of a scandal-hit care home where seven people died after suffering poor care, a senior council manager told an inquest. David Street (pictured),
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A care worker put nearly two dozen vulnerable people at risk by carrying out home visits while she was suspected to have Covid-19, a tribunal has heard. Samantha Gould, who
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Healthcare staff at a young offenders institute are feeling “over-stretched and stressed” because of their high workload, an inspection has found. Prison inspectors described this as a “key concern” and
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Unacceptable blanket bans on care home visits are in operation in England contrary to Government guidance, the care watchdog has said. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said providers should not
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A report into how well community payback orders are implemented and managed in Aberdeen has been published by the Care Inspectorate. Inspectors looked at how justice social work services in
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A grandmother died in agony after suffering huge pressure sores at a scandal-hit nursing home, an inquest has heard. Evelyn Jones, 87, developed sores across her lower back, described by
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Staff at a scandal-hit nursing home have told an inquest how elderly residents were humiliated and suffered poor standards of care. Seven residents who lived at Brithdir nursing home in
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The NHS is “failing” people from ethnic minority backgrounds, according to England’s most extensive study of the issue. The study, from the University of Manchester, found the average health of
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An elderly nursing home resident was so neglected by staff that he was left looking like an inmate in a prisoner of war camp, his daughter told an inquest. Stanley
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