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• Hancock faces calls to explain Covid test failings at care homes

  27-05-2021 21:08
  
  Health secretary claims it ‘wasn’t possible’ to test all patients sent to care homes at outset of pandemicDominic Cummings’ key accusations against Matt HancockSee all our coronavirus coverageMatt Hancock is under mounting pressure to explain why the government failed to protect care home residents at the outset of the Covid pandemic, as he sought to salvage his reputation after Dominic Cummings accused him of lying.The health secretary claimed for the first time it &ldqu
  
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• Steve Bell on the Dominic Cummings row over Covid and care homes – cartoon

  27-05-2021 21:00
  
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• Matt Hancock says not all patients sent to care homes were tested for Covid

  27-05-2021 19:23
  
  Health secretary admits it ‘wasn’t possible’, as he defends himself against Dominic Cummings’ claims Dominic Cummings’ key accusations against Matt HancockSee all our coronavirus coverageMatt Hancock has admitted it “wasn’t possible” to test for Covid all hospital patients discharged into English care homes, as he tried to salvage his reputation after a series of bombshell allegations made against him by Dominic Cummings.The health secretary said &
  
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• Winterbourne View lessons have not been learned 10 years on | Letter

  27-05-2021 19:13
  
  Margaret Flynn and Vic Citarella lament that their report on care home abuse in 2011 has not brought necessary changeWhen we wrote the serious case review that resulted from Panorama’s Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, broadcast on BBC One in May 2011, we had little sense that this obsolescent model of specialist service provision would be so defiantly durable. The broadcast received national news coverage due to the cruelties and distress revealed at a private hospital that was being pa
  
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• The UK’s forced adoption scandal was state-sanctioned abuse | Gaby Hinsliff

  27-05-2021 17:17
  
  Unmarried mothers were treated with contempt by authorities in the mid-20th century. The same goes for people deemed not to matter todayWhen Ann Keen gave birth, the midwives refused to give her anything for the pain. That way, they told her, she would remember it and learn not to be so wicked again. To be treated like an animal in labour, denied the most basic compassion and respect, was simply part of the punishment she had supposedly earned for getting pregnant out of wedlock aged 17. The hos
  
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• Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to increased ischemic stroke risk later in life

  27-05-2021 15:14
  Adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were more than three times as likely as those without the disorder to have an ischemic stroke later in life. Adults with OCD should maintain a healthy lifestyle, including not smoking, exercising, and managing a healthy weight, to help prevent stroke. Health care professionals should closely monitor patients with OCD for increased risk of ischemic stroke.
  
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• Mother daughter duo take on walking challenge for people with learning disabilities

  27-05-2021 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The manager of a learning disability service in Bradford has teamed up with her ten-year-old daughter to raise nearly £400 to fund technology, to help people she supports engage with their communities.Adele Cuvelier and her daughter Maddie stepped up to their challenge on 8 April when they walked 14 miles from Bingley to Skipton to raise funds for the service where Adele works, which is run by national charity Hft. The 41 year old works as Hub Leader, and supports people with learning disa
  
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• Welshman goes from delivering parcels to care as part of rising national trend for ‘occupational switching’

  27-05-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Watching the hardships of his friends and neighbours during the pandemic lead Andrew Watson from Cross Hands to join 6%* of the UK population and switch occupations in 2020.Andrew had previously worked for Amazon but, seeing the community come together to look after each other during the lockdown, thought it was time for him to take a career leap and get a job offering a more caring role in society.He decided to join ND Care & Support as a Care Support Worker and hasn’t looked back. An
  
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