Patients at a Woolwich hospital had to sleep in dirty incontinence pads, and were left waiting for up to two months to have their hair washed because staff were ‘too busy’ to help, a damning report ...

High Street shops have been accused of charging an unfair premium on vital incontinence products. An estimated six million Britons suffer some form of incontinence and many rely on absorbent pads that ...

Residents at a Nottinghamshire care home were forced to spend nights in soiled incontinence pads, a health watchdog has found. Braywood Gardens, in Carlton, was rated "inadequate" and placed in ...

People living in a Banstead care home were staying in bedrooms with bins full of “faecal matter”, an inspection has revealed. The findings were made during a visit by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) ...

Poor cleanliness, with dirty floors, stain-ridden linen that was washed in poorly maintained washing machines, and residents even having to use dust sheets and curtains for bedding. One member of ...

A son whose mother had to take soiled incontinence pads to the doctor to prove she needed them, said the practice was degrading to patients. Ivan Braddow, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire ...

A care home has been placed into special measures after inspectors found residents were not always protected from "avoidable harm and neglect". Kingsthorpe View in St Ann's, Nottingham, was rated ...