Monthly Archives: March 2015
Learning-disabled people are dying because they receive less good care
Following the Winterbourne View abuse scandal, there’s been a lot of well-intentioned talk but little actual progress in improving the care of vulnerable people
Husband frustrated at lack of good care when wife was battling cancer launches own business
Posted: March 22, 2015
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By the time Robin Kitt Callender died, she had endured eight weeks of intermittent vomiting and diarrhoea, and her weight had fallen to five stone. In the four months before she collapsed at her Essex care home, the 53-year-old had visited her GP six times and A&E twice, but her inflammatory bowel disease remained undiagnosed.