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• Hundreds of care home patients have died dehydrated or malnourished

  25-11-2018 18:25
  Office for National Statistics says that ‘poor care may have been a factor’ in some deathsMore than 1,000 care home patients have died suffering from malnutrition, dehydration or bedsores, new figures reveal.At least one of the conditions was noted on the death certificates of as many as 1,463 vulnerable residents in NHS, local authority and privately-run care homes in England and Wales over the past five years.. Continue reading...
  
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• Hundreds of care home patients dying from bedsores and malnutrition

  25-11-2018 18:25
  Over 1,000 vulnerable residents in England and Wales died in past five years from conditions including dehydrationMore than 1,000 care home patients have died suffering from malnutrition, dehydration or bedsores, new figures reveal.As many as 1,463 vulnerable residents in NHS, local authority and privately run care homes in England and Wales have died over the past five years with one of the conditions mentioned on their death certificates. Continue reading...
  
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• Will Britain’s beaten, betrayed migrant children find justice at last?

  25-11-2018 08:00
  Thousands forcibly sent to the Commonwealth from 1945-70 still await compensation – and for many time is running outThey were sent abroad, often without their parents’ consent. Large numbers were sexually and physically abused, while hunger and neglect were familiar enemies. Their education tended to be poor and they were often forced to perform exhausting manual work.Between the end of the second world war and 1970, successive UK governments allowed thousands of children, almost exc
  
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