All news on the topic: Care homes

Mary Ann Clifton, known as Rosina, has celebrated her 108th birthday at a care home in Orpington, Kent, and she has revealed her secret to a long and happy life

Lockdowns are still viewed as the worst thing that happened in during the pandemic - when it should be the travesty of how many disabled people were allowed to perish

The manager of The Sands Meadows care home in Hest Bank, Lancashire, immediately realised the ancient envelope was more than 'your average letter'

Gemma Jones stole £2,746 from her grandmother Gwynfa Jones days after the elderly woman moved into a care home. She spent the money on clothing, household items, rent, and takeaways, a court heard

Alan Worthington, 62, has been told he will only be allowed to have normal adult relationships after assaulting four women who were vulnerable and unable to refuse his unwanted advances

A family whose baby tragically died after she was found hanging from a harness used to strap her to a bed have branded an offer of £13,300 compensation 'insulting'

Council tax will soar by up to 5% for the majority of people in England on April 1 - in a fresh squeeze on family finances. Use our calculator to see how your bills will be affected this year

More than 200 care homes around England have been found to be "inadequate" by inspectors and the worst parts of the country have been revealed where standards like care and safety have not been met

Miriam Stoppard reveals that more than two million people are suffering from the need to have earwax removed now the service has been stopped by GPs

Health Minister Will Quince confirmed that the Department of Health spent £15,300 on 14 lavish wash and dry devices at the height of the first Covid lockdown, with Labour branding it 'one rule for them and another for everyone else'

He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead

Rachael Bletchly says while Matt Hancock was banging on about the 'protective ring around care homes', he and his ­incompetent colleagues were merely covering their own a***s

Catherine Bowden, 40, overstayed at a McDonald's car park by 14 minutes and has seen her fine spiral to £170 but is worried about she's going to pay up without falling into debt

Brian Reade says Matt Hancock's WhatsApp fiasco just confirms how incompetent the Tory Government - and he himself - were during the Covid-19 pandemic

Hannah Jobey was devastated when grandma Liz, 86, couldn't attend her wedding to Jay Harris so the pair made sure she didn't miss out - by throwing a special second one!

Russell Grant candidly opens up about being diagnosed with pituitary gland tumour

The only people who failed to appreciate this were Matt Hancock and the then Education Secretary Gavin Williamson who, like silly schoolboys, sent puerile messages in which Williamson accused teachers of being lazy

All Covid support has gone, but there are still shielders – disabled people who know their underlying conditions put them at too great a risk from Covid to venture out and reclaim a fully lived life now

This week, messages sent by former Health Secretary Matt Hancock during the coronavirus pandemic have been leaked. Three care home bosses have spoken to The Mirror about their despair

Bereaved relatives have told of their fury after Matt Hancock's bombshell texts on testing were leaked. Matt Forest, whose mum died of Covid, said the former Health Secretary 'betrayed' his mother

Those who lost loved ones to Covid will be reading these revelations with rage and disbelief. These messages must be examined in detail by the Covid Inquiry, which should report as soon as possible

The messages raise further serious questions about why ministers during the Covid pandemic failed to protect care home residents and why the testing regime was dogged by failures

Isabel Oakeshott leaked messages, which suggested the ex Health Secretary was told in April 2020 there should be "testing of all going into care homes"

A tranche of messages from the former Health Secretary and officials have been made public after he shared them with journalist Isabel Oakeshott who helped him write his pandemic memoir

The Labour leaders comments come after the ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock published his Pandemic Diaries in 2022 - before the Covid public inquiry kicked officially kicked off