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  • ‘Chaotic’ Liverpool care home’s residents found ‘wet through’

    ‘Chaotic’ Liverpool care home’s residents found ‘wet through’

    David HumphreysLocal Democracy Reporting Service

    Google Entrance to Rowan Garth Care Home in Anfield, Liverpool. It shows black open gates into the car park for the building, with a number of welcome signs reading Rowan Garth Care Home. It is a dry day.Google

    A spokesperson for Rowan Garth Care Home said it had appointed a “turnaround manager to lead improvements”

    Incontinent residents were “wet through” and in need of a change of clothes at a “chaotic” care home where checks for a deadly disease were also not always completed, inspectors have found.

    The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has put Rowan Garth Care Home in the Anfield area of Liverpool back into special measures following an inspection in June.

    The care regulator, which previously put the home under special measures in November 2022, found “serious failings” this summer, despite a plan having been made last year to improve conditions. The CQC said “no effective action had been taken”.

    Wellington Healthcare Ltd, which runs the site, said it had taken “immediate action”.

    The care home on Lower Breck Road provides accommodation for older people requiring nursing or personal care.

    At the time of inspection, only three of its five units were in operation.

    There were 82 people living there.

    The CQC downgraded the home’s overall rating from “requires improvement” to “inadequate”.

    Assessments for being “safe, effective and well-led” were rated as “inadequate” while the “responsive and caring” assessment criteria were rated as “requires improvement”.

    PA Media A stock image of the hands of an elderly lady overlapping and resting on her lap. Her nails are painted pink and she is wearing a wedding ring. She is wearing a pink skirt with a flowery pattern.PA Media

    The home was described as “very chaotic” by staff, the CQC said

    The findings in the CQC report include:

    • the management of medicines was unsafe, with residents not receiving them at the right time, exposing people to “often painful or uncomfortable symptoms”
    • staff did not have sufficient clinical guidance on people’s clinical risks and medicines for complex health conditions such as diabetes and epilepsy
    • Medicines were not always stored at the right temperatures, increasing the risk of them being ineffective
    • Some people’s continence records showed they were wet through and in need of a change of clothes on multiple occasions, indicating people’s continence care was insufficient
    • Some residents did not have access to a working bath or an accessible call bell to ring for staff support when needed
    • Infection control standards were “poor”
    • Furnishing, fittings and equipment was not always clean or in a good state or repair
    • Checks to monitor for the risk of Legionella bacteria in the home’s water system were not always completed.

    An agency nurse told inspectors how, from their point of view, there were not enough staff and it was “too much”.

    The home was described as “very chaotic” with staff described as “knackered”.

    ‘Expect rapid improvements’

    Andrew Peck, of the CQC, said inspectors found “serious failings in leadership that placed people at unnecessary risk of harm”.

    He said some residents received time-critical medications hours late which was “especially serious for people with conditions like Parkinson’s disease, where timing is vital”.

    He added: “Leaders didn’t ensure the environment was safe and we saw broken equipment and inadequate facilities.

    “The call bell system wasn’t fit for purpose and although the provider had been aware of this for over six months, no effective action had been taken to ensure people were able to call for staff help when needed.”

    He said: “While we found staff were kind and caring, they weren’t supported by leaders to deliver safe care.

    “Leaders also didn’t ensure staffing levels were sufficient, meaning people often experienced delays in receiving support.”

    Mr Peck said the regulator expected to see “rapid and continued improvements” and would continue to monitor the home closely to keep people safe.

    “We have begun the process of taking regulatory action in order to protect people further.”

    Residents’ safety ‘paramount’

    A spokesperson for the care home said it was “disappointed” with the “inadequate” CQC rating and said “our priority is to learn from this and take immediate corrective action”.

    They said it had “implemented a comprehensive improvement plan to address all concerns raised”.

    “We acknowledge there were areas where we did not meet the high standards our residents and their families rightfully expect and deserve.

    “The safety and wellbeing of our residents is paramount. We have appointed a highly experienced turnaround manager to lead the improvements at Rowan Garth and ensure sustainable change.

    “We remain committed to delivering the quality of care our residents deserve and look forward to demonstrating significant progress at the CQC’s next inspection.”

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  • Student with cancer-causing genes fathers nearly 200 babies by sperm donation; some babies are already dead – livemint.com

    1. Student with cancer-causing genes fathers nearly 200 babies by sperm donation; some babies are already dead  livemint.com
    2. Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children  BBC
    3. At least 197 children were fathered by…

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  • Endoscopy finds Neanderthal noses not as adapted to the cold as expected | Environment

    Endoscopy finds Neanderthal noses not as adapted to the cold as expected | Environment

    One sign of a really cold day is the sharp sting of freezing air in your nose. It was believed that the noses of Neanderthals were better adapted to breathing the cold air of the Ice Age and that when the climate became warmer they were…

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  • One in 20 London spiking incidents leads to a charge

    BBC/Gem O'Reilly Two cocktails - one yellow, another looking suspiciously like a mojito, on a table in front of a black box containing a machine which contains a vapeBBC/Gem O’Reilly

    This machine can test if vapes have been tampered with

    The number of people charged for spiking offences amounts to fewer than 5% of the overall reported incidents, figures from the Metropolitan Police show.

    In the year to November…

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  • ‘Like a rock star’: the global reverence for Martin Parr’s class-conscious photography | Martin Parr

    ‘Like a rock star’: the global reverence for Martin Parr’s class-conscious photography | Martin Parr

    The death of Martin Parr, the photographer whose work chronicled the rituals and customs of British life, was front-page news in France and his life and work were celebrated as far afield as the US and Japan.

    If his native England had to shake off…

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  • Slower buses causing passenger number fall, London assembly told

    Slower buses causing passenger number fall, London assembly told

    Kumail JafferLocal Democracy Reporting Service

    Getty Images A busy central London street with multiple red double-decker buses stuck in slow-moving traffic. A white van and several cars are also queued, while two men stand on the pavement beside a bus. Christmas lights hang above the road, and buildings line the background.Getty Images

    Westminster and Camden have the capital’s slowest bus speeds

    Bus speeds in London have slowed to their lowest level in years, causing a fall in passenger numbers, the London Assembly has heard.

    Average speeds on the capital’s bus network fell to 9.17mph in 2024–25, down from 10.27mph four years earlier, according to City Hall data. In August, the latest month available, buses were travelling at 9.06mph on average.

    Passenger numbers also fell last year for the first time since the pandemic, dropping from 1.869bn journeys to 1.842bn.

    Transport for London (TfL) said its Bus Action Plan would speed up travel, with 15.5 miles (25km) of new bus lanes, 1,900 signals prioritising buses and 52.8 miles (85km) of existing lanes operating 24 hours a day.

    The assembly’s transport committee was told this week slower services and “endless traffic” were making buses less attractive.

    Paul Lynch, managing director of Stagecoach London, said conditions had “worsened over the last few years to a point where somebody who works for me… and has been around for 40 years operating buses in London says it’s the worst he has ever seen”.

    He added: “It’s making them less attractive and less reliable… It’s got to be one of the reasons why bus passenger numbers are declining at the same time that bus speeds are.”

    TfL’s latest Travel in London report recorded a 1.5% fall in bus journeys compared with last year, alongside rises in passenger numbers on the Underground and Elizabeth line.

    ‘Bad for London’

    Michael Roberts, chief executive of London TravelWatch, told members that slower journey times “mean reduced patronage, which in turn means reduced income to TfL”.

    He said slower speeds also increased operating costs because “you need more buses to run a given level of service”, adding that buses are “an effective use of road space” and declining use was “bad for London”.

    “For every 10% reduction in journey speeds, there’s a 6% reduction in demand,” he said.

    London TravelWatch estimates that meeting the mayor’s aim for 80% of trips to be made by walking, cycling or public transport by 2041 would require bus journeys to rise by 40%

    TfL analysis suggests daily trips must grow from 5.1m to 9m.

    Some boroughs experience far slower services than others, with average speeds under 7mph in the City of London, Camden and Westminster.

    Bexley, Hillingdon and Havering recorded average speeds above 11mph.

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  • Want to quit antidepressants? Slow tapering plus therapy is the most effective way, study suggests

    Want to quit antidepressants? Slow tapering plus therapy is the most effective way, study suggests

    Antidepressants don’t have to be taken forever, a new analysis suggests.

    Every year, a growing number of people across Europe take antidepressants to help treat symptoms related to depression and anxiety. While current guidelines recommend…

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  • Exclusive: China's ZTE may pay more than $1 billion to the US over foreign bribery allegations, sources say – Reuters

    1. Exclusive: China’s ZTE may pay more than $1 billion to the US over foreign bribery allegations, sources say  Reuters
    2. ZTE May Pay US Govt USD1B+ to Settle Overseas Bribery Allegations: Report  AASTOCKS.com
    3. Justice Department has moved ahead with a U.S. investigation into ZTE for allegedly violating Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in South America and other regions -sources  marketscreener.com
    4. ZTE Corp shares slide on report of over $1 bln fine to US govt  Investing.com
    5. ZTE Communicating with US Department of Justice Over Compliance Probe Related to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Will Protect Rights Through Legal Means  AASTOCKS.com

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  • Graph-augmented transformer ensemble framework for robust and scalable fake news detection in social media ecosystems

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  • European researchers developed energy-efficient machine vision inspired by human eyesight and the brain

    ESPOO, Finland, Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Drawing inspiration from human eyesight, a European research project led by VTT has developed machine vision mimicking the…

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