Essex County Council should be thoroughly ashamed after keeping a 91 year-old man in a LOCKED dementia unit against his wishes for 17 months. This was despite his repeated insistence that he wanted to go...
A MOTHER who was training for a half marathon now faces a lifetime of disability after falling so ill on Christmas Eve surgeons had to amputate her legs and fingers. Tracy Ralph, 34, was taken...
Care of the elderly is in a state of “calamitous, quite rapid decline”, a leading charity boss has warned, with hundreds of thousands fewer people receiving care than five years ago. More than £1bn has...
A SCHOOLBOY who wanted to see the hit Stephen Hawkins film could not get in a cinema because of his wheelchair. Barry Smith, writing in the Daily Star about Joe Francis, 12, who was told...
A NURSE murdered three patients and poisoned 19 others by contaminating saline with insulin “at random” a court heard. Victorino Chua, 49, emerged as the “common denominator” during an investigation into the deaths of Tracey...
A foreign crook up for deportation is still here after claiming he could not leave due to piles. Fraudster Jean Claude Happi Siewe was due to be kicked out last July but insisted he was...
Patients who use A&E after getting drunk should pay for treatment, the majority of Brits believe. An exclusive poll for The Sun also found huge support for charging drug users and foreign tourists. Around 80%...
More than 2,000 people are living off benefits because they are too fat to work. The number of obese claimants has almost doubled in Britain since 1997. Some experts have blasted the fatties as “lazy”,...
So now we know – it’s the NHS 111 service that’s caused 95 per cent of the rise in patients attending A&E. Of the 450,000 extra people who went to A&E last year, 220,000 were...
One of the main reasons there is such a crisis in hospitals is that a large number of elderly people are occupying beds because they can’t be sent home. And the reason they can’t is...
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