Efforts to vaccinate care workers should be stepped up, industry leaders said as the Government claimed a “crucial milestone” had been reached with all older care home residents in England
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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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One of the UK’s largest care home groups has said it will not hire new staff who have refused to have a coronavirus vaccine on non-medical grounds. Barchester Healthcare, which
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A judge has given a 69-year-old woman who has dementia and lives in a care home the go-ahead to have sex with another resident she has become attached to. Mr
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Cases of Covid-linked deaths are being investigated at more than 450 care homes in Scotland, it has been reported. According to the BBC, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service’s
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A woman with dementia was neglected by nursing home staff and left to develop infected bedsores in the months leading up to her death, an inquest has heard. June Hamer,
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Dozens of care home residents were among people evacuated to safety after Storm Christoph brought heavy rain and flooding to parts of northern England. Homes were deluged following heavy rainfall
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A West Indian woman in her 80s who is suffering from dementia and living in a care home should be given a coronavirus vaccine despite her son’s concerns, a judge
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The number of deaths in UK care homes involving coronavirus has passed 25,000, new analysis by the PA news agency shows. A total of 21,621 Covid-19 deaths in care homes
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Nicola Sturgeon and her chief medical officer have attacked “targeted misinformation” campaigns which seek to persuade care home staff to avoid the coronavirus vaccine. The First Minister urged all care
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