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Senior Policy Officer @HealthFdn | Mostly tweeting on adult social care, health and migration policy | views own
May 27, 2021 13 tweets 7 min read
1/ Part 2 of our assessment of the government's pandemic response in #adultsocialcare out today. @pheebsdunn @hughalderwick @fiona_grimm @AlarillaAnne @RichardnotatKF and I looked at policies between June 2020 & March 2021: health.org.uk/publications/r…
Here's a 🧵on some key points… 2/ COVID-19 has had a sustained & grim impact in social care. 27,200 excess deaths in care homes in England, 9,600 in domiciliary care, staff more likely to die of covid than other adults, people going without much needed care, more people (many women) carrying out unpaid care…