At last, after three years of cuts to social care, there now seems to be a growing awareness that there may be a problem in cutting this vital public service. Sadly that problem, at least as far as the newspapers … Continue reading
The case in this article about this woman’s father shows how secret courts are going to be used against those who try and defend their loved ones, you’ll start to see more and more cases like this mark my words? … Continue reading
Four staff from the Solar Centre, at St Catherine’s Hospital in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, deny more than 50 counts of mistreating vulnerable adults in their care. Alleged incidents involved 17 different patients, many of whom are blind, mute and have … Continue reading
As many as 1,165 people starved to death in NHS hospitals over the past four years fuelling claims nurses are too busy to feed their patients. The Department of Health branded the figures ‘unacceptable’ and said the number of unannounced … Continue reading
Taro Aso says he would refuse end-of-life care and would ‘feel bad’ knowing treatment was paid for by government Continue reading
Hospitals are ‘very bad places’ for elderly people, according to the head of the NHS. Sir David Nicholson said they were not the right place to care for ‘old, frail people’, and called for community care to be expanded to … Continue reading
A 62-year-old hospital patient who was suffering with breathing difficulties was told he would have to walk 23 miles home after being discharged in the middle of the night. Peter Rees was rushed to West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen … Continue reading
How on earth can a patient starve to death in a modern NHS Hospital in the UK? It is time for Criminal proceedings to take place against the Hospital administrators/executives, it’s no longer good enough for just the Trusts to … Continue reading
I have always been totally gobsmacked that Hospitals seem to close down on weekends, Nurses, Porters, Technicians, Labs, Kitchens, X-Ray Dept and several other areas of the general hospital workforce yet Consultants appear to be a different breed of human being. … Continue reading
Jo Brand to some people may be a brilliant comedian but apologising for the state of nursing is a joke too far. Nursing standards have been going downhill for years, it’s not something that has just happened and it’s NOT just down … Continue reading