A care worker who was dismissed because she refused to have a coronavirus vaccine can argue that her reasons were religious, an employment judge has ruled. Patrycja Wierowska worked as
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A grandfather fell, wounded his head and was taken to hospital while waiting for a social care assessment to enable him to go into a care home, his family said.
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A new project has brought a host of feathered friends to the windows of care home residents in Co Armagh. The Lough Neagh Partnership has teamed up with two care
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Prescribing potentially harmful antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia has increased by more than 50% on average in care homes during the pandemic, new research suggests. Academics at the University
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The police watchdog is investigating whether two Sussex Police officers used excessive force against a 93-year-old man. Sussex Police were called to a care home in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex,
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The human rights of people in care are at risk of being breached by slow progress on enabling visits and the inappropriate use of resuscitation notices, a report has warned.
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The coronavirus inquiry will be conducted “as speedily as possible” so lessons can be learned before another pandemic strikes, the chairwoman of the probe has pledged. Baroness Heather Hallett (pictured)
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The police watchdog is investigating after a man died during an arrest at a care home in Cornwall. The 35-year-old man was detained after entering the Tregolls Manor care home
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Delays to building secure schools are leaving vulnerable young people, especially girls, in unsafe conditions, according to a new report from MPs. The report found that delays in building secure
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A man who lost his grandmother to coronavirus has said free testing and other measures should never have been axed, as he reflected on the “absolutely heart-rending and tragic” milestone
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