Panorama
Season 71 Episode 41 - Care Workers under Pressure
Panorama investigates a care home short of staff, where external medical professionals report seeing residents neglected, and overseas staff complain of being exploited. Britain’s health and care sector is increasingly reliant on overseas staff, with more than 120,000 visas issued last year. Reporter Balagopal Balakrishnan investigates one of 15 care homes run by a company in north east England. He finds carers being charged thousands of pounds by an unscrupulous recruitment agency and nurses locked into lengthy contracts with financial penalties if they leave early. The programme also hears about dozens of safeguarding alerts, including reports of neglected residents suffering unexplained bruising and uncovers evidence that the company boss is willing to protect staff from regulators when things go wrong. The company says any suggestion that there is systematic bad practice would be unfair and inaccurate.
Episodes in Season 71
The NHS Crisis: Can It Be Fixed?
29 min
Dogs, Dealers and Organised Crime
29 min
Forgotten Heroes of the Covid Front Line
28 min
Is the Cloud Damaging the Planet?
29 min
Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake
28 min
Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea
28 min
Ukraine's War Diaries
58 min
Crisis Pregnancy Centres Uncovered
29 min
Elon Musk's Twitter Storm
29 min
Cops, Cash and Fraudsters
28 min
Surviving the Pay Squeeze
28 min
What’s Gone Wrong with Our Housing?
29 min
The Drug Wars that Killed Olivia
30 min
Road Wars - Neighbourhood Traffic Chaos
30 min
Will King Charles Change the Monarchy?
29 min
Private ADHD Clinics Exposed
28 min
Landfill: Britain’s Toxic Secrets
29 min
Ultra-Processed Food: A Recipe for Ill Health?
29 min
Electric Cars: Is It Time to Buy?
29 min
The Antidepressant Story
58 min
Is China Watching You?
29 min
Westminster's Toxic Culture
29 min
Debt Trap: Who's Cashing In?
29 min
The Millionaire Who Cheated a Council
Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and Us
Lucy Letby: The Nurse Who Killed
58 min
Teenage Vaping: What's the Harm?
The Dark Side of Ballet Schools
Downfall of the Crypto King
The Abercrombie Guys: The Dark Side of Cool
58 min
The Big Mortgage Squeeze
29 min
Challenging Putin: Moscow and the Mutiny
29 min
At War: Crisis in the Middle East
29 min
Prime Suspect: Who Took Madeleine McCann?
57 min
Boohoo's Broken Promises
29 min
Why Are We Still Searching for Fossil Fuels?
29 min
Putin and Ukraine's Stolen Children
59 min
My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice
59 min
The Water Pollution Cover-Up
29 min
The Billionaire Bishop and the Global Megachurch
28 min
Care Workers under Pressure
29 min
