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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 vulnerable residents sometimes don’t even get what they need (or pay for), according to damning reports from Care Quality Commission. Despite being owned by three of the best known care groups in the UK, the homes – HC-One’s Pytchley Court in Northampton, Barchester’s Sherwood Lodge in Preston and Bupa’s Battersea-based Meadbank - have each rec

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

The CMA makes clear, what you say must be true and accurate

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

The reports are equally bad. Why is the home for older people closed while the one for people with disabilities is left open?

There were never enough staff

Almost all have been labelled unsafe by the regulator

An excellent and committed senior carer, once said to me about some staff on her team: ‘They have no pride in their work. They just don’t ca

A shocking litany of injuries, abuse, police investigations - even deaths - is contained in recent reports by England’s care regulator. The Care Quality Commission's reports highlight its failure to identify or prevent dozens of incidents in care homes throughout the country - leaving hundreds of vulnerable people at risk and open to mistreatment. As if proof were needed that the system of care regulation is failing, these latest ‘Inadequate’ reports demonstrate serious incid

The Chase Care Centre in Watford must be one of the biggest homes in the country - it was given an 'Inadequate' rating last week

Three care homes were branded 'Inadequate' by regulators last week - after concerns were raised by third parties.

The rating confounds claims from the industry that it is not possible to provide excellent care at reasonable prices

'You work hard all your life and end up in a place like this.'