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AT LAST - The Care Quality Commission has finally published details today [21 July] of the care homes where people have died...

With Covid cases increasing again in care homes, campaigners are demanding the government organise weekly testing of care staff to...

The country may be shocked, but the Care Quality Commission cannot be surprised at the recent increase of COVID-19 in some of the care...

Partial, confusing, incomplete. The long-promised data published recently by the Care Quality Commission are worse than useless in...

The CQC's carefully-selected information implies the entire care home industry is unsafe

The service had a high number of infections and deaths due to Covid 19

one in five care homes for older people is currently not meeting the required standards

England’s care regulator, the CQC, is poised to reveal how many Covid outbreaks have been in homes which it knew were unsafe

the CQC maintained the 'public interest' would not be served by the publication of this information

Even though CQC inspectors have said these homes are substandard, and sometimes have been for years, they are home to many thousands of olde

Worst Care of 2018 - awards for worst care in a corporate home, worst care in an independent home, worst care provider.

Worst care of the year - Yorkshire, Lancashire, Bristol, Devon, Lincolnshire, Birmingham, Essex, Manchester

Families voiced concerns but the website boasts: 'In our care homes we specialise in providing quality care.' [sic]

One family had taken the extraordinary step of employing a private carer to come into the home

YOU can’t always get what you want, as the song goes. But when it comes to the worst three corporate care homes this month, frail and...

The fact that such an appallingly bad home boasted a CCTV system will raise questions about the benefits of cameras

Official reports describe a profit-driven casual indifference on the part of care homes bent on maximising revenue rather than providing car

Another person was woken up by staff shouting their name in their face.

"There is not enough staff here. I feel it's unsafe and an accident waiting to happen"

CQC moves to restrict admissions at two Midlands care homes but company websites appear reluctant to reveal new bad rating