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Highgate Care director Mitesh Dhanak (left) and Mary Feilding Guild residents (right) - Credit: Highgate Care/Polly Hancock The new owner of a Highgate care home says "widespread Legionella” could force him to close Mary Feilding Guild before the end of May.   Mitesh Dhanak, the director of Highgate Care, claims the bacteria is rife throughout the building – and that it is awaiting “urgent advice” from the Care Quality Commission and Public Health England on whether the home is safe to...

Resident Dr Jean Scott, 88, read a statement in front of her fellow residents - Credit: Polly Hancock Elderly care experts have made grave warnings over the impact of the sudden closure of Mary Feilding Guild on residents’ physical and mental health.   Sixteen pensioners have been told they must leave the home by the end of May, after the charitable trust sold the site to a private company, Highgate Care, on March 4.  An old age psychiatrist from Crouch End feared the shock of moving reside...