The Scottish Government “dismissed” concerns about the airborne transmission of Covid during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. Colin Poolman, director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Scotland,
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Restrictions on families visiting their loved ones in care homes during the pandemic felt cruel and punitive, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. The inquiry was told there had been
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A senior member of the Scottish Prison Service has apologised if protocols were not followed in the death of an asthmatic prisoner whose father said died alone in his cell
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A mother threatened to harm her Down’s syndrome daughter to force authorities to become involved because she was so desperate following the withdrawal of social work support during the pandemic,
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Two women died after eating chicken mayo sandwiches fed to them in hospital and contaminated with listeria, an inquest has concluded. Retired Jamaican nurse Beverley Sowah (pictured), 57, and mother-of-five
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A morbidly obese teenager with disabilities who died after being severely neglected by her parents did not have a care plan and her suffering was “avoidable”, a safeguarding report has
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Some people with profound and multiple learning disabilities will die earlier or suffer lifelong problems because care they needed was interrupted during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish
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Boris Johnson was like the “absent manager” of a football team during the pandemic, a public inquiry has heard. Mark Drakeford, the outgoing Labour First Minister for Wales, heavily criticised
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Welsh people were treated like “second-class citizens” by the UK Government during the pandemic, an inquiry has heard. Baroness Eluned Morgan, the Welsh Labour health minister – who took over
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A woman whose father died of Covid-19 while in hospital said she felt he was viewed as “disposable”. Melanie Hunter’s father, John Cowan was placed on a do not resuscitate
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