Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful'

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Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes 'unlawful'
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Covid: Care homes 'were not helped to keep out virus'

Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.

His cause of death was given as "suspected Covid" after the home took in a patient discharged from a hospital with the virus.Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson, who died aged 88 in a care home in Oxfordshire in April "It is also now clear that Matt Hancock's claim that the government threw a protective ring around care homes in the first wave of the pandemic was nothing more than a despicable lie of which he ought to be ashamed and for which he ought to apologise."Dr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris said care home residents were "disregarded"

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