Safety Secrets.
Private Eye 4-18 Dec 2020.
1/ With Covid-19 deaths in care homes rising disastrously, according to latest available figures, the Govt’s policy on discharging hospital patients is again under scrutiny.
Private Eye 4-18 Dec 2020.
1/ With Covid-19 deaths in care homes rising disastrously, according to latest available figures, the Govt’s policy on discharging hospital patients is again under scrutiny.
2/ Virus-positive patients are meant to be sent to local authority “designated” homes or settings, rated by the CQC as “good” or “outstanding” & “Covid-19 assured”. This means they meet 8 criteria to prevent & control infection, to protect visitors, staff & patients.
3/ But neither CQC nor the Department for Health & Social Care (DHSC) will reveal which homes are on the designated list - despite a clear public interest to do so....
4/ With hospitals under intense pressure again, could such secrecy be related to the fact that families are complaining that loved ones are being discharged into homes with a chequered history of poor care...
5/ ....& so remain far from “good” or “understanding”, yet have somehow managed to secure Covid-19 “assurance”?
6/ Eileen Chubb of Compassion in Care says the charity has recently been told that patients, some with dementia, have been sent from hospital, often at short notice, into sub-standard homes.
7/ She (Chubb) questions how any home already struggling to provide good quality, safe care could be judged Covid-safe. Small print in new hospital discharge guidance also allows homes “requiring improvement” to be designated so long as CQC approves their anti-Covid measures.
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