Fury as leading care provider chain puts up fees for elderly residents by thousands to pay for increased costs Barchester Healthcare told relatives they will face extra costs to pay for rent Families who have hardly see their loved ones have been asked to pay to visit Comes after pay of chief executive Dr Pete … Read more
It’s often said that Britain as a nation is property-obsessed. Many love to discuss house prices, are constantly plotting ways to increase the value of homes, have an eye on which way the market is moving, along with some online window shopping for somewhere new. We also have reams of information about our homes at … Read more
Boris Johnson’s failure to fix the social care system is a ‘stain on our nation’, expert says Expert called on Prime Minister to find a way to reform the social care system Chancellor admitted that it would take ‘some time’ for reforms to be completed Sir Andrew Dilnot, who led 2011 review on social care … Read more
Downing Street blamed the coronavirus pandemic for a lack of progress on reforming social care today – more than 18 months after Boris Johnson said he already had a ‘clear plan’ ready to solve the problem. The Prime Minister and Chancellor Roshi Sunak were facing criticism today after help for the care sector was missing … Read more
Katie Price ‘to decide who will care for her disabled son Harvey after she dies in the follow-up to moving BBC documentary’ By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 21:33 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 21:33 GMT, 2 March 2021 Katie Price will reportedly decide who will look after her disabled son Harvey in the … Read more
Mother, 69, who gave birth to twins aged 64 following IVF has her children taken into custody after Spanish court rules she cannot care for them The Spanish Supreme Court has upheld an earlier ruling to remove the children The twins, now aged four, have been living in foster care since shortly after their births … Read more
The first of many! Delighted daughter hugs her 90-year-old mother indoors for first time in three months as Covid restrictions ease Mary Cook, 90, and daughter Fiona Scott hugged for first time in three months Care home residents in Scotland now allowed two designated visitors a week Ms Scott visited her mother at Queen’s House in … Read more
NHS still has ‘insufficient’ intensive care beds, bosses warn as they demand review of capacity after Covid crisis ‘strongly confirmed’ hospitals don’t have enough space NHS Providers CEO Chris Hopson said it wasn’t safe to suddenly increase beds There must be systematic improvement to set hospitals up with bigger capacity UK ranks ‘towards the bottom … Read more
Tory heavyweights Jeremy Hunt and Damian Green demand Boris Johnson use the Budget to produce long-awaited plan to pay for social care as they warn it is ‘now or never’ Jeremy Hunt and Damian Green wrote joint op-ed calling for social care plan Tories promised in 2019 manifesto to urgently seek consensus on the issue … Read more
A woman who left her former life behind to live in the woodlands of Pembrokeshire 20 years ago tells presenter Ben Fogle she doesn’t care if other people call her ‘crazy’ on New Lives in the Wild. Tonight’s episode of the Channel 5 show focuses on Emma Orbach, 66, originally from England, who has been … Read more