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• Care review – Sheridan Smith excels in delicately observed drama

  09-12-2018 23:30
  Jimmy McGovern’s story of a single mother forced to become her own mum’s carer will chime with many. And Smith’s performance is her best yetWhen Jenny (Sheridan Smith) leaves the hospital to which her mother Mary (Alison Steadman) has been taken after a car crash brought on by a stroke at the wheel, she finds she has driven there without any money to pay the parking. Can the man in the booth just let her out, please? He cannot. So she has to leave her car, get an expensive taxi
  
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• High praise for BBC drama, ‘Care’, for tackling social care crisis

  09-12-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The UK’s leading dementia charity, Alzheimer’s Society, has warned that the story at the heart of a new BBC1 drama, Care, is too often the reality for countless people at the mercy of a broken social care system.   The Society has commended scriptwriting legend Jimmy McGovern for casting a light on an invisible group […]
  
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• Centrica's motion tracker service aims to assist unpaid carers

  09-12-2018 13:44
  Firm will install devices in homes of elderly, disabled and ill people for monthly feeBritish Gas owner Centrica is planning to put motion trackers in the homes of elderly, ill and disabled people as part of a service aimed at easing the concerns of millions of unpaid carers.The company has already built a connected home business selling smart thermostats and other devices to more than a million households. In the latest sign of how the UK’s biggest energy company is diversifying away from
  
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