Good Morning Britain viewers were left ‘in bits’ today thanks to a sweet elderly couple who couldn’t bear to be apart. Yesterday footage emerged of the emotional moment devoted wife Betty Meredith, 91, surprised her husband Kenneth, 96, who has dementia, after deciding to move into his care home because she ‘couldn’t live without him.’ Charlotte, from … Read more
The bungling NHS Test and Trace system was hit by ‘huge IT problems’ in October that led to delays in squashing coronavirus outbreaks in care homes, it’s been claimed. Leaked NHS emails reveal an IT failure occurred in mid-October at a crucial point of the second wave of the pandemic, when infections were rising across … Read more
Denying care home visits will trigger a mental health crisis among the elderly, MPs warn MPs related ‘nightmarish’ stories from constituents unable to see relatives Families have not been able to hug their loved ones for eight months Liberal Democrat MP Daisy Cooper said rules meant there was nothing ‘to prevent loved ones from dying … Read more
County lines gangs are recruiting children in care homes as drug runners as the youngsters are ‘easy targets for exploitation’, an investigation has found. Whistleblowers have reported that staff at a care home in Lancashire have been probed by police over allegations of ‘modern slavery and trafficking offences.’ It is understood up to four staff … Read more
Today, Money Mail is urging relatives of vulnerable care home patients to wage a fightback for vital NHS funding. At least 15,000 sick and elderly Britons have been wrongly denied around £30 million in support, research shows. It means thousands of patients, including dementia sufferers, could be needlessly selling their homes to pay for care. … Read more
Today, Money Mail is urging relatives of vulnerable care home patients to wage a fightback for vital NHS funding. At least 15,000 sick and elderly Britons have been wrongly denied around £30 million in support, research shows. It means thousands of patients, including dementia sufferers, could be needlessly selling their homes to pay for care. … Read more
Many countries in Europe are running out of intensive care beds amid a surge of coronavirus cases – as well as the doctors and nurses required to staff them. In Italy, queues of ambulances are parked outside hospitals awaiting beds for patients, while in France the Covid-19 tracking app prominently displays the ICU capacity taken … Read more
A loving daughter has got a job in a care home so she can continue seeing her Alzheimer’s suffering father throughout the coronavirus lockdown. Nina Ambrose, 49, was devastated when lockdown rules meant she couldn’t visit her father Roger, 77, who moved into a care home in Chelmsford, Essex, in January. So the 49-year-old decided … Read more
NHS nurses in intensive care units are being allowed to look after two coronavirus patients instead of one. It’s the second time NHS England has relaxed the rule on one-to-one nursing for critically ill Covid-19 patients during the pandemic. Regular guidance from the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine says that there should be one nurse … Read more
What a horrible time to be a university student. Fenced in at Manchester, banned from leaving the precincts at Cambridge, and all the others deprived, like the rest of us, of essential human connections under the draconian shadow of Covid. Although university years are often held up as golden and glorious – a time for … Read more