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Focus on Disability - For Disabled People, the Elderly and their Carers in the UK

13th February 2015

‘Hundreds die’ because of NHS bed blockage

Several daily newspapers have, today, highlighted the delays in admitting patients to hospital from A&E because of a shortage of beds. This is leading to “hundreds of deaths per year” in the UK, the royal...

Age Issues / Care Services / Focus on Disability

22nd January 2015

Britain’s Care of the Elderly – In Rapid, Calamitous Decline

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...