Care worker, 53, who starred in viral TikTok dance with 102-year-old resident is found dead at home amid fears she had Covid-19 Jeanette McKenna, 53, had worked at the same care home for the last ten years She went viral after a TikTok video of her dancing with a care home resident The 53-year-old worked … Read more
Jeremy Hunt today condemned the failure to deploy coronavirus tests on patients discharged into care homes. The former health secretary said an ‘over-focus’ on the risk of a flu pandemic meant the government had not thought about the need for wide-scale screening. And he insisted checks on patients sent back to care homes was an … Read more
Take-up of a scheme allowing people to delay selling their houses to pay care home fees exposes a ‘postcode lottery’, according to research by a law firm. A selective survey of 10 local authorities reveals that the rate of deferred payment agreements among self-funded care home residents ‘varies wildly’ from 0.9 per cent in East … Read more
More than 22,000 care home residents across England and Wales may have already died as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a grim analysis. Official data yesterday showed almost 9,000 COVID-19-related deaths in care homes had been recorded in the two countries by the start of May. But researchers at the London School … Read more
Local authorities are ‘using coronavirus as an excuse’ to deny young, disabled Britons vital care, charity bosses have warned. One deaf and blind 21-year-old man receiving round-the-clock support was deemed not vulnerable enough to continue living at his residential care home. Instead, the Welsh local authority offered a prescription for sedative medication and a bed … Read more
We will not be able to dance a conga or enjoy a street party — let alone flock to Buckingham Palace, as millions did back on May 8, 1945. Tomorrow, 75 years on, it is going to be an unavoidably subdued anniversary of the day that the UK finally celebrated Victory in Europe. Nonetheless, we … Read more
We will not be able to dance a conga or enjoy a street party — let alone flock to Buckingham Palace, as millions did back on May 8, 1945. Tomorrow, 75 years on, it is going to be an unavoidably subdued anniversary of the day that the UK finally celebrated Victory in Europe. Nonetheless, we … Read more
Youngest Labour MP is SACKED by care home she returned to work at during coronavirus crisis after exposing the lack of PPE Labour MP Nadia Whittome returned to Nottingham to work as a carer She was elected as the youngest MP, aged 24, in last year’s general election Whittome said the care home locked down … Read more
An intensive care nurse has spoken of the heartbreaking moment his ‘goggles filled up with tears’ after he had to decide whose hand to hold between two patients dying from coronavirus. Tonight’s one-off Channel 4 documentary NHS Heroes: Fighting to Save Our Lives, follows the stories of a collection of frontline NHS workers who filmed … Read more
Judge rules woman dying from cancer should be able to leave care home to spend her last days with her family despite coronavirus lockdown rules An elderly woman was allowed to leave an unnamed care home due to her illness The woman, who had terminal cancer, had been living at the home for 10 years … Read more