The incident happened two years before the BBC's Panorama programme revealed widespread mistreatment at the home.
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Margaret Haywood, 58, filmed at the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton for a BBC Panorama programme in July 2005.
The BBC's Panorama programme followed several vegetative and minimally-conscious patients in Britain and Canada for more than a year.
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Diana, Princess of Wales, earned public admiration after admitting her vulnerabilities in a dramatic interview on the BBC's Panorama programme.
Last week six people were jailed for their role in abuse at the private hospital exposed by the BBC's Panorama programme.
In a statement, care and support minister Norman Lamb said the Panorama programme "continues to highlight inappropriate and poor quality care".
He was a regular presenter and correspondent on the BBC's Panorama programme and later worked for both ITV and Channel 4.
The security services suggested the attack was revenge for the Panorama programme.
The BBC's Panorama programme commissioned the research from statisticians at Sheffield University.
The abuse was uncovered during secret filming by the BBC Panorama programme.
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Last March, a BBC Panorama programme alleged that a senior News of the World executive obtained emails hacked into by a private detective.
Helen Pessell, from the Salisbury care centre, said following a repeat showing of the Panorama programme the company had decided "enough was enough".
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Earlier this month the BBC's Panorama programme claimed the lists were supplied to the Dobson campaign by Labour headquarters at Millbank, with Ms McDonagh's authority.
The allegations were made in weekend newspaper reports following the BBC TV Panorama programme's decision to name four people suspected of involvement in the atrocity.
The BBC's Panorama programme learnt the youngster was well known to Kirklees social services and had been put on the "at-risk" register years before she disappeared.
In his interview for the Panorama programme he compared the proposed new power to detain suspects for 90 days without charge with what had happened to him.
The BBC's Panorama programme Undercover Care, which investigated the abuse of patients in a Bristol care home, won best UK current affairs coverage and scoop of the year.
Meanwhile Baby P's grandmother has spoken to the BBC's Panorama programme, saying she had been warned not to visit her grandson's grave in case people "turned" on her.
In the report, Sir Desmond found that an account one of the murderers, Ken Barrett, gave to the BBC Panorama programme about receiving intelligence from the RUC was "essentially accurate".
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Mencap and the Challenging Behaviour said they had received 260 reports from families concerning abuse and neglect in institutional care since the Panorama programme was aired in May last year.
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On Monday, the BBC's Panorama programme reported on the abuse allegations against Savile as well as the decision by Newsnight last December to drop its investigations into the claims.
The BBC's Panorama programme has named Dr Norman Halliday as the Department of Health official who, as early as 1992, learnt about the higher-than-average death rates at the Bristol unit.
Later, former Army intelligence officer Ian Hurst discussed a BBC Panorama programme in which he was shown emails he alleges were hacked from his computer on behalf of the News of the World.
Tom Heap, the reporter on the Panorama programme, said he did not believe that a "single frame" of the programme "was not authentic" and that he was disappointed the trust chose "not to trust a Panorama team of such calibre".
An acrimonious legal tussle cannot be ruled out - especially because the families would argue that the Panorama programme which named several men as being responsible for the bomb, could not have been made without the co-operation of members of the Garda and the then RUC.
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), the trade body and professional institute for the UK's leading advertising, media and marketing communications agencies, offered to take part in this Panorama programme to ensure that the position of UK advertisers and their advertising agencies was accurately portrayed.
The BBC picked up a further four awards, including three prizes for current affairs programme Panorama.
Jeremy became the presenter of Panorama when the programme returned to primetime on Monday evenings in 2007.
Panorama has broadcast a special global interactive programme with a special international panel including Richard Perle and Edith Cresson.
The whistle-blower told the programme that paperwork obtained by Panorama that shows apprenticeships as complete, could not have been at the time they were signed off because the firm did not employ an assessor then.
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