Category Archives: Health

Bristol's grand censor-in-chief

Posted on April 29, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I see our old friend Steve Norman’s asking a question of  leader “Call me ma’m” Janke tomorrow at cabinet about Mimosa Healthcare and the morbidly dangerous levels of care they provide on her behalf to our city’s elderly people. I … Continue reading →

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"The Angel of Death"

Posted on April 22, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

The Lib Dem Clifton Thicky duo of Babs “Call me ma’m” Janke and her even more ridiculous Cabinet Member for Care and Neighbourhoods, Bev Knott, have truly excelled themselves with this one. Can it only be a month ago that … Continue reading →

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Mimosa: "expect arrests imminently"?

Posted on February 25, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear, what a bad day for the Mimosa Healthcare Group in Bristol. You can be forgiven if you took your eye off the ball today – what with all that underwhelming Babs taking over from Helen bollocks at the … Continue reading →

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It tolls for thee Kathy

Posted on February 19, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Strong rumours have been reverberating around the Blogger’s newswires today that the coroner will be opening an inquest tomorrow into the death of a former resident at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home last autumn (Blogger passim). The news might come as … Continue reading →

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"Why don't you fucking go home Kathy?"

Posted on February 13, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

As an incendiary file usefully cataloguing over nine years of abuse allegations under three different owners at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home slowly makes its way to Blogger HQ, the spotlight may soon be falling upon the city council’s former Head … Continue reading →

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Kingsmead Lodge: the allegations begin …

Posted on February 4, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

Bit of a hoo-ha down at the Counts Louse this afternoon, I’m told, over this public forum statement to the Health Scrutiny Commission about the Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home abuse scandal (Blogger passim). It seems that our dearest of dear … Continue reading →

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Public money: private abuse

Posted on February 3, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

You may have read in the Evening Cancer on Friday that police are investigating allegations of abuse at Kingsmead Lodge Nursing Home in Shire. This private residential care home, specialising in dementia, is run by a Nottingham-based company, Mimosa Healthcare … Continue reading →

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More child protection inadequacies exposed

Posted on December 3, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Oh dear. It’s been revealed in the Cancer that another Serious Case Review into a child abuse case in Bristol isn’t up to scratch. At last night’s full council meeting the political boss of the city’s children’s services, Peter Hammond, … Continue reading →

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Dying for a change?

Posted on December 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

After yesterday’s eventual departure of Sharon Shoesmith, Haringay’s Director of Children’s Services, in the wake of the traumatic levels of bureaucratic failure surrounding the death of ‘Baby P’, James Barlow has been taking a look at Bristol’s Safeguarding Children Board … Continue reading →

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Dim Prawn's happy hour hypocrisy

Posted on July 23, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“Bristol MP and health minister Dawn Primarolo has spoken of her determination to target happy hours in an attempt to cut the £2.7 billion cost of drink problems to the NHS,” explains tonight’s Evening Cancer. Fine. But how about if … Continue reading →

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