Why small nursing home are better
Many elderly residents are living in conditions where they are at risk of ill-treatment.
Yesterday the Care Quality Commission (CQC), which was set up to regulate the care sector, published a review of 33,000 inspections which it has carried out over the past three years.
As was widely reported yesterday it revealed that a shocking third of nursing homes had failed on safety grounds.
In one case the CQC prosecuted a home where a 62-year-old man fell off a shower chair and broke his neck.
In another case a home was prosecuted after a man died due to a mixup with his […] Read more