My letter to @BorisJohnson.
There‘s only one way to keep care home residents safe: test workers and ensure #COVID19 never enters a home in the first place.
Right now some homes are petri-dishes for contagion within and between homes.
Staff are angels and heroes, but need help
There‘s only one way to keep care home residents safe: test workers and ensure #COVID19 never enters a home in the first place.
Right now some homes are petri-dishes for contagion within and between homes.
Staff are angels and heroes, but need help
Care homes are being rationed to five tests per home. This is woeful and dangerous, but a symptom of the UK having too few tests available and a failure to upscale testing facilities fast enough.
The PM promised protective equipment by the end of last week to every care home. This hasn’t happened.
250 light face masks have been delivered to some. But due to the close contact of social care work, workers caring with infected residents need full body protection.
250 light face masks have been delivered to some. But due to the close contact of social care work, workers caring with infected residents need full body protection.
There’s about 150 hospitals in Nritain and we’re rightly focussed on the needs of frontline NHS staff.
There’s about 18,000 care homes and they’ve been overlooked in the national debate. That must change: vulnerable lives depend on it
There’s about 18,000 care homes and they’ve been overlooked in the national debate. That must change: vulnerable lives depend on it
