Search results for ‘elderly care’
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An Englishman, a Welshman and a Scotsman go to a pharmacy…
Channel 4 News looks at how patients with multiple ailments in England could face massive and at times unaffordable prescriptions where elsewhere in the UK charges are now abolished.
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‘Depraved’ Night Stalker Delroy Grant guilty of rape
“Sickening and depraved” Delroy Grant is found guilty of 29 counts of preying on elderly men and women. Simon Israel looks at the police errors which saw the Night Stalker elude capture for 17 years.
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Press freedom row behind scenes at Night Stalker trial
The judge who tried Night Stalker Delroy Grant is accused of using a legal loophole to stop details of the case being reported.
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Benefits reform: disabled people ‘terrified’ by changes
As the Welfare Reform Bill progresses through Parliament, disabled writer Lucy Glennon writes for Channel 4 News that the reforms could see the disabled become poor, isolated, and forgotten.
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Minicab driver on trial for ‘Night Stalker’ rapes
A former minicab driver has gone on trial accused of being the so-called Night Stalker, a rapist who preyed on elderly victims over a 17-year period. Delroy Grant denies the charges against him.
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Is the Big Society a small idea?
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks whether David Cameron’s Big Society is really a Big Idea – and why we still don’t get it.
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US cuts: Obama’s $1.1trillion budget battle
It’s not just in Britain that the Government’s cutting spending. President Obama is planning a $1.1trillion cut – and his political opponents say that’s not enough, as Felicity Spector reports.
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FactCheck: Cameron set to break promise on NHS cuts
“There is no cut in the National Health Service – we’re actually putting £10.6bn extra into the NHS during this parliament.” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, 2 February 2011
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Political predictions for 2011: Turkey, veterans and heirs
Predictions in politics are a mug’s game: defining moments, from 9/11 to the banking collapse, often come from nowhere. But caveats aside, here’s some tips for 2011, from Gaby Hinsliff.
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UK weather: two pensioners die in frozen gardens
Police are investigating the deaths of two pensioners who were found dead in their frozen gardens, increasing concern for the elderly in the sub-zero weather.
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FactCheck: is the NHS really healthy?
FactCheck analyses Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s commitment to “cut the deficit, not the NHS”.
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Stem cell brain implant world’s first for Glasgow
Stem cells are injected into the brain of a stroke victim in a world-first experiment, carried out at the University of Glasgow.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is free: what next for Burma?
Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from house arrest today, after a total of 15 years and 20 days in detention. What next? Author and human rights activist Benedict Rogers reports.
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Exclusive: council spending revealed ahead of cuts
Councils spend millions on sick days, redundancy payouts, and incentives to get staff to come to work including fruit baskets and M&S vouchers, a Channel 4 News investigation discovers.
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Spending cuts will ‘block NHS beds’
The government was warned today that severe cuts will lead to elderly patients blocking NHS beds because there will be nowhere for them to be discharged to.