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Elderly people warehoused in care home with insufficient food and water A coroner said the owners and staff at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly, were responsible for a gross betrayal of the trust placed in them Updated Dr Prana Das was owner of the scandal-hit Brithdir home in New Tredegar were residents were dehumanised (Image: Getty Images (main)) A coroner has slammed the care given to six residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he gave a withering summary of...

A coroner has slammed the care given to six residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he gave a withering summary of a catalogue of failings – accusing managers of “dehumanising” and “warehousing” the elderly. Assistant Gwent Coroner Geraint Williams began summing up after hearing six weeks of evidence into the deaths of the residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales. He accused the owners and staff at the home of a “gross betrayal of the trust” ...

A coroner has criticised the care given to residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he highlighted a withering catalogue of failings – accusing managers of “dehumanising” and “warehousing” the elderly. Assistant Gwent Coroner Geraint Williams said the deaths of five residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales, were contributed to by neglect. He accused the owners and staff at the home of a “gross betrayal of the trust” placed in them by families ...

A CORONER has slammed the care given to six residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he gave a withering summary of a catalogue of…

A coroner said the deaths of five residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales were contributed to by neglect.

Coroner slams dehumanising care given to five residents who died of neglect at a scandal-hit nursing home where one elderly man was left looking like a prisoner of war Geraint Williams accused owners and staff at Brithdir nursing home, South Wales of a gross betrayal of trust He recorded narrative conclusions for five residents at an inquest today, with a sixth dying of natural causes They all suffered dehydration, malnourishment and pressure sores on their bodies between 2003 and 2005 The fami...

Daphne Richards accepts care was "exceptionally bad" at the Caerphilly care home where seven died.