Susan Mckinney who runs 14 care homes:
“We had incident on April 10 where twice we rang hospital saying ‘we can’t accept this person back, we need them tested we need a negative test so we know what we’re dealing with. They turned up in ambulance and refused to go away.
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“We had incident on April 10 where twice we rang hospital saying ‘we can’t accept this person back, we need them tested we need a negative test so we know what we’re dealing with. They turned up in ambulance and refused to go away.
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There was stand-off. Family members turned up, paramedics had poor resident on a stretcher at the door and wouldn’t go away until we allowed them in. And all we got was ‘you’re not following the guidelines’
We were threatened with the police if we did not let this person in.”
We were threatened with the police if we did not let this person in.”
Care home managers were kept on the dark:
“Privately PHE was showing ministers data they had collected highlighting rapidly growing number of COVID outbreaks in care homes, data they had been collecting since early March.”
File on 4 has discovered PHE had identified over ...
“Privately PHE was showing ministers data they had collected highlighting rapidly growing number of COVID outbreaks in care homes, data they had been collecting since early March.”
File on 4 has discovered PHE had identified over ...
... 250 outbreaks in English care homes before the lockdown, with more than 500 the week after. Incredibly, by the time they had published the information at the end of April, they and the government knew there had been more than 4,500 outbreaks in care homes …
PHE said the data had been used by health protection teams and to brief ministers. But it wasn’t shared with care homes.”
If I had a Q at #PMQ today I’d ask this:
“Was there a govt directive to ensure care homes encourage residents to complete DNRs?
My mother in law had to complete one last year and others have said same.
Was this as a consequence of Cygnus?”
“Was there a govt directive to ensure care homes encourage residents to complete DNRs?
My mother in law had to complete one last year and others have said same.
Was this as a consequence of Cygnus?”
