All news on the topic: Care homes

A lady who lost her father to coronavirus in a care home has slammed Matt Hancock over claims he ignored advice on care home testing. The Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has furiously disputed the suggestion

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock furiously disputed the suggestion that he ignored advice to test everyone entering care homes from Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty in April 2020

A elderly man has stunned his relatives by making a remarkable 'return from the dead' nine years after he was mistakenly thought to have been cremated following an escape from a care home

An investigation by the Sunday Mirror has revealed the poor state of nine care homes with single star hygiene ratings, meanwhile their owners enjoy 'good food and wine'

A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Mirror speaks to three British hosts and the Ukrainian families they’ve invited into their homes

Linda Sutherland was told she was suffering with depression, after losing her husband Ronnie, but her two children took her to the doctors after growing concerned and realised their mum had a progressive stage of Alzheimer's

Cases of the winter vomiting bug have risen by more than a third in only two weeks, according to the UKHSA, with old people especially at risk amid the current outbreak

Barnwell County Hospital in South Carolina, US, was the only hospital in the county and had the only X-ray machine in the town, so local doctors would send patients there for routine X-rays

Rachel Peace, 30, shares what it is like to care for her mum Brenda, whose young-onset dementia has taken over her personality

Jason Dean Rothwell and a friend were the members of the public who found the body on Sunday, which was later confirmed to belong to Nicola Bulley

Mary Brown has been accused of cutting the man's frostbitten foot off so she could taxidermy it at her family's shop and display it with a sign that said: 'Wear your boots kids'

Pete Weatherby KC, representing the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice group, told a preliminary hearing today that he backs a call by the TUC for austerity to be looked at in the long-anticipated probe

Doctors have issued a warning after scientists revealed a 66% rise in norovirus cases this season - whilst seeing the highest number of infections in the elderly in more than 10 years

An expert has reviewed video footage of an alleged UFO sighting and he is certain this is proof of alien life, ruling out the possibility that it could be a military craft

The alert comes in a poll for the Liberal Democrats amid growing warnings about the impact the social care crisis is having on the under-pressure NHS as it battles strikes and backlogs

An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a nursing home and was moved to a funeral home, but soon she started breathing again leaving workers in shock - and now an investigation has been launched

Miriam Stoppard reveals a quick, non-invasive new method that could revolutionise the diagnosis of UTIs

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will walk out on Monday and Tuesday in England, while GMB members employed by the ambulance service will also strike on Monday

Investigators believe the body of Regina Michalski could have been in the freezer for two years. Her daughter Eva Bratcher has been charged with concealing the death in Chicago, US

A 66-year-old woman was found alive and breathing at a funeral parlour after being sent in a body bag from a care home in Des Moines, Iowa, where she was declared dead

Maria Branyas Morera from California is 115-years-old and described her life as a "gift", and now she's shared her life advice - and it turns out she doesn't have time for the haters

The MP appeared on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday morning, sitting in the ITV studio with Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley

Michael Scouse was forced to open the vault in what would become one of the most infamous heists in history – the Brink’s-Mat bullion raid

Harry, a 14-year-old miniature Shetland pony, has donned a variety of fabulous fancy dress costumes, once paraded to Buckingham Palace and regularly visits care homes, even riding up and down the lift

A Blackpool hotel owner has hit back at disgruntled guest who complained the building was a "disgrace" and needed a refurbishment, saying the claims were 'frankly a lie'