Category: Healthcare industry

Rape and sexual harassment reported by foreign care workers across UK

Multiple cases of abuse and exploitation have been documented, but many staff feel ‘powerless to complain’ for fear of losing the right to work in the countryA foreign care worker says she was repeatedly raped by her...

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Greenpeace defends protest at PM’s home as ‘proportionate response to a disastrous decision’ – UK politics live

Amid criticism of its anti-oil protest at constituency manor, group says action would not have gone ahead if Sunak had been at homeGreenpeace has defended its anti-oil protest following criticism of a “major security...

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UK aid should not fund private hospitals in developing countries, says Oxfam

Development charity says patients denied treatment or held hostage until fees paid in private facilities in India and KenyaPrivate hospitals in India and Kenya accused of refusing people on low incomes vital healthcare, or...

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NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent

Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sitesNHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook...

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UK care home firm under fire as children forced to move hundreds of miles

Private provider criticised for uprooting more than 60 vulnerable children, with some transferred from south-east England to ScotlandThe trade body that oversees children’s care homes has taken the unprecedented step of...

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‘Heartbreaking’: private care homes accused of failing UK children due to closures

Staff warn vulnerable children may be harmed as they struggle to find placements after 28 homes given deadline to shut by chainOne of the UK’s largest for-profit care chains has been accused of failing dozens of vulnerable...

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