It is relatively common for care home residents to suffer from one of the various forms of urinary and bowel incontinence. Although this may be inevitable for some older adults, with appropriate assessment and management,...
Increasing demands on general practice over the past five years – not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity and intensity of work – have led to a feeling of crisis. The NHS is...
A charity has called for top-up fees to be ‘optional, affordable and transparent’, after finding many families are subsidising the cost of their relative’s care home when it should be free. Families can choose to...
Care chiefs’ message to Osborne: we fear a wave of homes closing down John Bingham writing in The Telegraph: Health and social care chiefs are demanding a crisis meeting with George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt to...
Melanie Newman and Oliver Wright writing in The Independent (03/08/2015) – The lives of vulnerable care home residents were put at risk because the country’s healthcare regulators failed to act promptly on official warnings about...
A DEMENTIA patient has died just weeks after she appeared in video footage begging for food at a scandal-hit care home. Edna Slann’s family say her health rapidly faded when she was placed at Grantley...
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable patients are being illegally restrained by staff in hospitals and care homes, according to the care watchdog. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) warns that carers and nursing staff are ignoring...
Staff ‘don’t want them going to the toilet at night’ The Daily Mail reports today regarding elderly care home residents’ lives being put at risk because many staff do not give them enough to drink,...
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