Tag: Nursing Homes
over 1 year ago
irishmirror.ie

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says elderly won't be left in lurch with nursing homes converted for refugees

“I always say when it comes to the issue of asylum and migration is that we need to be fair, we also need to be firm"

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over 1 year ago
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Runner loses leg to rare flesh-eating bug as doctors urged mum to turn off life support

Emma Doherty caught the life-threatening infection necrotising fasciitis while being treated for sepsis in February 2...

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over 1 year ago
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Disabled pensioner unable to visit wife of 60 years as crucial bus to be axed

Andy Wilson, 82, will not be able to visit his wife of 62 years Marie, 85, at her care home after McGill's Buses anno...

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over 1 year ago
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Single mum 'worried sick' after being slapped with £170 fine for parking at McDonald's

Catherine Bowden, 40, overstayed at a McDonald's car park by 14 minutes and has seen her fine spiral to £170 but is w...

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almost 2 years ago
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Elderly woman sexually assaulted by intruder at care home in sick New Year's Day attack

Police confirmed an elderly woman was taken to hospital after they were called to a care home because an intruder was...

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about 2 years ago
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World War Two veteran, 95, left waiting for 26 hours on trolley in A&E

Hospital bosses have since "sincerely apologised" to 95-year-old Stanley Solomons and his family, who say his conditi...

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about 2 years ago
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UK region suffers 250% rise in Covid hospitalisations as cases hit 224,000 a day

Daily cases in the UK hit 224,000 earlier this week as new NHS data shows hospital patients being tested for Covid in...

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about 2 years ago
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Retired butcher, 90, who stabbed blind wife in bed as he couldn't cope is SPARED jail

Edward Turpin, 90, stabbed his blind wife Joan, also 90, multiple times at their home in Kent, where he was her carer...

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about 2 years ago
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Ford government gives hospitals the power to send elderly patients to nursing homes

Premier Doug Ford has used his government’s majority to give hospitals more power to free up beds.

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about 2 years ago
thestar.com

Doug Ford’s government is ignoring the rights of elderly patients, MPPs charge

The Ford government is ramming through legislation that could push the hospitalized frail and elderly awaiting long-t...

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about 2 years ago
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Opinion | Who can fix Ontario’s health-care crisis? Not our new health minister

Ontario’s greatest problem right now was laid bare in the pandemic: the hollowing out of our medical system with a cr...

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over 2 years ago
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The much-loved grandmother-of-60 still alone and separated from her family

Widowed at 35 and left to raise 10 children on her own, grandmother Maureen McCumesky has a clan of 60 grandchildren ...

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over 2 years ago
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Witch who works as a carer wears veil to shield herself from patient's negative energy

Sophia Griffiths, 33, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, says wearing the veil helps her avoid taking on the stresses of th...

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almost 3 years ago
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Widow in tears as she's reunited with dog gifted by late husband after 'miracle'

Care home staff at the Redwalls Nursing Home in Cheshire captured the heartwarming moment resident Diana Darlington w...

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almost 3 years ago
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'After my wife admitted her crime in her sleep, I went straight to the police station'

Ruth Fort, 47, stole the money from a vulnerable and wheelchair-bound woman while working at a care home and her husb...

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almost 3 years ago
thestar.com

Unvaccinated visitors won’t be allowed in nursing homes, Ontario says

No vaccination, no visit as Ontario tightens the rules nursing homes, with increased COVID-19 testing and new restric...

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almost 3 years ago
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Carers could be offered £500 to stop them quitting for jobs in pubs and supermarkets

NHS Providers has urged the Government to offer at least £500 each to stop workers being tempted away by opportunitie...

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almost 3 years ago
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Carer of 30 years who refused Covid vaccine walks away due to 'no jab no job' policy

Mum-of-three Suzanne Cooper, 52, had worked as a carer for over 30 years but felt she needed to walk away from the jo...

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about 3 years ago
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Opinion | After a humiliating fall from grace, can Rod Phillips redeem himself by reforming long-...

If not for his public shaming over a Caribbean getaway in mid-pandemic, Rod Phillips would surely be the mighty minis...

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about 3 years ago
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Ontario will double its staff of nursing-home inspectors

Ontario is doubling the number of nursing home inspectors in the wake of COVID-19 to keep a closer eye on living cond...

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about 3 years ago
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Daughters take Government to High Court after dads died in virus-hit care homes

Fay Harris and Cathy Gardner say the Government breached its duty to protect care home residents and failed to protec...

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about 3 years ago
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Woman turning 100 receives over 300 birthday cards after care home put out appeal

Olwen Gant celebrated the milestone of a century-year-long life at Bassett House care home, and kindhearted strangers...

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about 3 years ago
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Desperate daughter's bid to fly seriously-ill dad back to the UK from Thailand

Trina Sanders, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, is raising money to bring her dad Peter Thurgood home from Thailand as hi...

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about 3 years ago
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Care home boss who also ran hotels in UK under investigation for £80million fraud

Gavin Woodhouse owned a string of UK hotels and care homes until they went into administration in 2019 - after he'd t...

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over 3 years ago
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Covid care home deaths 'could be thousands higher' due to 'death warrant' policy

Care home providers have claimed the figure could be thousands higher than the official number recorded because only ...

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over 3 years ago
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MP banned from carrying gran's coffin demands PM apology in blistering speech

In a powerful PMQs speech, Labour's Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi tore into the Prime Minister - and his ministers - for hav...

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over 3 years ago
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Mum-of-22 Sue Radford takes Britain's biggest family kids to trampoline park

Sue Radford took some of her youngest kids to an indoor trampoline park as dad Noel prepared to get the keys for a ne...

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over 3 years ago
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Covid booster vaccine to be given at same time as flu jab to protect millions

NHS England said in a letter to hospital bosses, GP practices, vaccination sites, community pharmacies and council ch...

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over 3 years ago
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Robot dogs are bringing comfort to care home residents with dementia

The dogs, which looks, move and sound like a real dog, all feature lifelike coats, soft heartbeats, and make realisti...

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over 3 years ago
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Dominic Cummings claims Boris Johnson plans to quit after next election

Number 10 said the claim was "utter nonsense" - but did not deny the veracity of a bombshell cache of text messages w...

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over 3 years ago
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4 Covid questions Matt Hancock failed to answer over Dominic Cummings’ evidence

The Health Secretary was the target of the most searing claims in the Prime Minister’s former advisor - but aside fro...

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over 3 years ago
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Delaying Covid inquiry would let people 'rewrite memories and lose documents'

Dominic Cummings, the PM's former top aide said there was 'no excuse' for delaying the inquiry until next year - sayi...

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over 3 years ago
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Pensioner ‘kept wife’s corpse for 12 years’ and still collected her Xmas gifts

Police were alerted when Christina Malloy failed to show for a Covid vaccination in February and discovered her body ...

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over 3 years ago
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Ruth Langsford celebrates mum's first family Sunday lunch at her home in a year

Ruth Langsford was absolutely over the moon to have her mum over for Sunday lunch for the first time in a year as loc...

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over 3 years ago
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Up to five visitors to be allowed per resident in care homes from Monday

The change comes as the nation moves into the next phase of its lockdown roadmap, the Department of Health and Social...

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over 3 years ago
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Care home residents allowed out for more visits and won't have to self-isolate

Boris Johnson said the continued decline in Covid cases means care home residents can now take another positive step ...

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over 3 years ago
mirror.co.uk

Care home branded 22-stone gran a 'fire hazard' and rejected her, claims family

Susan Lynas' daughter Chaanah claims Woodlands Nursing Home, in Livingston, West Lothian, denied her mum due to her s...

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over 3 years ago
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Covid funeral curbs could mean grieving agony for 80,000 more families

Funeral charities are pleading with the government to lift measures restricting funerals earlier with an estimated 75...

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over 3 years ago
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Rules forcing care residents to isolate after visits could be relaxed next month

The Government has come under mounting pressure to scrap guidance which forces a 14 day quarantine on residents who l...

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