Tens of thousands of dementia sufferers are being rushed to hospital every year because of shocking failings in England’s social care system. Emergency admissions of people with dementia soared by 27 per cent over four years because inadequate social care leaves them unprotected from infections, falls and dehydration. An investigation launched by the Alzheimer’s Society to … Read more
Tens of thousands of dementia sufferers are being rushed to hospital every year because of shocking failings in England’s social care system. Emergency admissions of people with dementia soared by 27 per cent over four years because inadequate social care leaves them unprotected from infections, falls and dehydration. An investigation launched by the Alzheimer’s Society to … Read more
Care homes in Covid hotspot Bolton have been told to hold fire on plans to permit more visitors next week amid surging cases of the Indian variant. Schools in the Greater Manchester borough are also urging pupils and staff to keep wearing masks in classrooms next week, despite the measure due to be scrapped nationally … Read more
Care homes in Covid hotspot Bolton have been told to hold fire on plans to permit more visitors next week amid surging cases of the Indian variant. Schools in the Greater Manchester borough are also urging pupils and staff to keep wearing masks in classrooms next week, despite the measure due to be scrapped nationally … Read more
The Visiting Hour Rating: Verdict: A game of cat and mouse Faith Healer Rating: Verdict: Lyrical healing We have the Irish to thank for keeping the music in the English language alive on stage over the past century. Two of the greatest exponents of this are Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel. McGuinness has a new … Read more
AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine appears to be protecting people from the Indian variant of the virus, reports suggest. There are concerns the Indian variants, which have started spreading in the UK, could make jabs less effective and risk vaccinated people getting sick anyway. But in a case of 33 care home workers getting infected after vaccination … Read more
More than a fifth of care home residents have died of Covid in the worst-hit parts of England in the North since the start of the pandemic, official data suggests. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released today show the number of care home residents who died in England and Wales was a fifth higher … Read more
The promise they never keep… September 1997 – Tony Blair: ‘I don’t want [our children] brought up in a country where the only way pensioners can get long-term care is by selling their home’. January 2013 – David Cameron: ‘We’ll set out big new steps on some of the hardest and most important long-term issues … Read more
The promise they never keep… September 1997 – Tony Blair: ‘I don’t want [our children] brought up in a country where the only way pensioners can get long-term care is by selling their home’. January 2013 – David Cameron: ‘We’ll set out big new steps on some of the hardest and most important long-term issues … Read more
More than a fifth of care home residents have died of Covid in the worst-hit parts of England in the North since the start of the pandemic, official data suggests. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released today show the number of care home residents who died in England and Wales was a fifth higher … Read more