Carers reaching 'breaking point'
Three out of four carers have reached "breaking point" at some point due to the pressure of their role, according to a poll. A survey of 1,941 unpaid carers found 74 per cent had felt stretched to their limits by the stress of trying to care for somebody who is ill, frail or disabled.
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Prejudice skews public view of asylum seekers
Attitudes to asylum-seekers in Britain are being skewed by gross over-estimation of the numbers of refugees reaching the United Kingdom and prejudice towards immigrants among young people, the British Red Cross says today.
Nearly a quarter of people believe there are more than 100,000 asylum applications every year – about four times the annual figure of 25,670, and just 5 per cent of Britons know to within 10,000 how many refugees come to the UK every year, according to a survey carried out for the charity.
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Pressure grows for inquiry into deaths of elderly patients
Pressure is growing for a public inquiry into a series of deaths of elderly people at a hospital in Gosport, Hampshire, as a doctor faces the General Medical Council charged with giving patients excessive doses of the drug diamorphine.
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