Re Care Home Covid Deaths
Once a particular narrative, framing, received wisdom takes hold in media/public consciousness it is hard to shift or challenge and ands up looking heretical or uncaring but I *do* think this issue needs a slight re-balancing
And possible that by keeping them in hospital we would avoidably expose them to catching Covid-19
But they lie outside much of now accepted narrative about this isssue
3. The slowness out of the blocks with national policy in Jan/Feb after WHO declared a pandemic
4. Failure to adopt successful/recommended approaches
5. Insufficient alternative "step down" or "discharge to assess" capacity so that new or returning care home residents could be quarantined/observed/tested away from acute bed base
7 Insufficient regard was taken of their significant workforce challenges (including reliance on agency staff working multiple sites)
ENDS