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Denise Fowler will leave her housing ombudsman role in June 2017 to join Women’s Pioneer Housing as its new chief executive.

John MacDonald has been appointed chairman of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (SFHFT), which also runs King’s Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield.

MedicX Fund has appointed Helen Mahy to its Board as a non-executive director.

A nursing home worker has been charged after she was caught on camera allegedly performing a lewd lap dance in front of a 100-year-old dementia sufferer.

A former manager at a private hospital where adults with learning disabilities were ill-treated has been struck off from nursing. Kevin Haigh worked for South Gloucestershire Council at Winterbourne View near Bristol.

A care home boss rammed a wheelchair into a resident with learning difficulties who refused to get out of lift.

A nurse who shoved medicine into an elderly dementia patient’s mouth as she screamed ‘no! No! No!’ has been kicked out of the profession. Susan Capewell was working for Care UK at the Willows Nursing Home in Cavendish Road, Beechwood, Middlesbrough when she forced medication on the woman, who was in her 80s.

Shelter has appointed Polly Neate, the current chief executive of domestic violence charity Women’s Aid, as its new chief executive.