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• Appalling insecurity for elderly care home residents | Letter

  12-04-2021 18:44
  
  Catherine West discusses the closure of the Mary Feilding Guild residential home and the plight of elderly residents “Boutique” charitable care homes sound exciting (UK’s care homes tap into ‘boutique vibe’ to fill empty beds, 5 April) but sadly, in my own constituency, the imminent closure of the Mary Feilding Guild highlights the appalling insecurity that still exists in provision for the elderly.Sixteen residents between the ages of 85 and 104 are being kicked ou
  
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• Northfleet Care Home Receives Therapy Doll Donation

  12-04-2021 10:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Residents of Dene Holm Residential Care Home in Northfleet received an incredibly kind gift this week, in the form of an extraordinarily life like therapy doll.When residents at Edward Moore House Residential Care Home in Gravesend were donated an amazingly lifelike doll from local Reborn Artist, Trish, one of the resident’s relatives was so impressed by the positive impact it had on his mum and the other residents at the home, he decided to commission another doll for one of Rapport Housi
  
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• Exemplar Health Care’s Management Team expands with new appointments

  12-04-2021 08:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Exemplar Health Care has announced two recent appointments.Dr Graham Rich has been appointed as  new Chairman of the Board. Dr Rich brings a wealth of experience gained from a successful career across the healthcare and technology sectors, including CEO of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and CEO of West Hull Primary Care Trust.Graham joins the company as Chairman, supporting the Board to develop and implement the Company’s strategic plan.He’ll work with the exi
  
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• NHS staff are suffering from ‘moral injury’, a distress usually associated with war zones | Mariam Alexander

  12-04-2021 08:00
  
  Adequate support now could head off a post-pandemic exodus of health workers who feel broken by their experiencesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMariam Alexander is an NHS consultant liaison psychiatristI remember the exact moment when the enormity of the Covid-19 crisis dawned on me. In the days before the pandemic was even called a pandemic, I was sitting in a hastily organised meeting of senior hospital colleagues. We were thrashing out how we might respond i
  
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