Care Homes: Coronavirus

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to publish their response to the letters sent by the National Care Forum on (1) 26 March, and (2) 10 April which (a) stated that care homes were “being pressured into taking hospital discharge patients who had not been tested for the virus, even though they were exhibiting symptoms”, and (b) called for discharged patients to be tested or risk litigation over the “avoidable deaths” of residents who subsequently became infected.


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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

The Department does not have record of the correspondence from the National Care Forum.

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