Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Hunger, neglect, unnecessary sedation: this is reality inside profit-hungry UK care homes | Leandra Ashton
We can’t look away any longer, says Leandra Ashton, co-founder of the People’s Care Watchdog
Leandra Ashton
27, Mar, 2023 @3:02 PM
Five care chains thought to make £150m a year for low-rated homes in England
Providers taking £150m a year in taxpayers’ money for private places that ‘require improvement’, Guardian estimates
Robert Booth and Michael Goodier
25, Mar, 2023 @8:00 AM
‘How would you like to be in this dump?’: families’ horror at privately run UK care homes
Operators are pocketing large sums from councils while relatives speak of shocking conditions
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
23, Mar, 2023 @5:09 PM
English councils spent £480m on ‘inadequate’ care homes in four years
Exclusive: Investigation finds huge sums of taxpayers’ money spent on poor quality private homes
Robert Booth and Michael Goodier
23, Mar, 2023 @4:00 PM
‘We wouldn’t have sent Dad there’: CQC accused of failing to keep care homes safe
Bernard Chatting’s family relied on ‘good’ rating from CQC for Dorset care home and allege regulator’s delay in exposing risks led to his death
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
08, Mar, 2023 @4:00 PM
‘He was still dirty’: stroke survivor fights homecare bill over visit lengths
Council threatened court action after North Yorkshire man alleged care homecare visits lasted quarter of contracted time
Robert Booth Socials affairs correspondent
09, Feb, 2023 @11:00 AM
UK maternity care is in a bad state – and Black women suffer the most | Letters
Letter: Recent reports from the CQC and MBRRACE-UK paint a shocking picture of deteriorating women’s health services. The government must act now, says Prof Geeta Nargund
18, Jan, 2023 @5:42 PM
Owner of UK care home group paid himself £21m despite safety concerns
Exclusive: ‘Eye-watering’ pay for Gordon Sanders comes despite inspectors finding multiple breaches of rules at his firm’s homes
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
17, Jan, 2023 @4:00 PM
Means testing and lack of staff shape how England’s dementia patients are treated
Low pay, limited training, temporary staff and cross-subsidising creating worse conditions, after government’s failure to ‘fix social care’
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
28, Dec, 2022 @4:49 PM
Care homes in England ‘risk being vilified’ if forced to allow visitors
Sector hit by staff and funding shortages warns against giving residents legal right to see guests
Tom Ambrose
12, Nov, 2022 @11:28 AM
Care substandard at 39% of maternity units in England, NHS watchdog finds
Care Quality Commission reports deteriorating services and ‘the same concerns emerging again and again’
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
21, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM
UK care home where workers abused resident may face criminal action
CQC ‘reviewing evidence’ after footage shows 88-year-old Ann King’s treatment at Reigate Grange
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
14, Oct, 2022 @5:00 PM
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