Search Result for 'care homes'

...to care homes. Before this, negative tests were not required prior to transfers and admissions into the care home. The study interviews show that care homes became no-go zones: GPs...

...those entering care homes from hospital, but not for those coming from the community. Prior to the guidance, care homes had been told that negative tests were not required even...

...large numbers of patients with Covid were discharged into care homes causing several outbreaks of infection. An article in the Financial Times recently highlighted that insurers of care homes were...

...to death is now felt to be sufficient for death to be attributed to COVID-19. For deaths in care homes the situation is even more extraordinary. Care home providers, most...

...from a critical care nurse at a large NHS hospital in the East of England. She’s none too happy about the staff who’ve been redeployed to work in critical care...

...small feat in a full hospital. 2. In some hospitals patients are not being discharged until their Covid test returns as negative. Clearly returning patients to care homes during the...

...Another group representing bereaved relatives said the policy pursued by Nicola Sturgeon’s Government at the start of the pandemic, of discharging untested hospital patients into care homes, was “ultimately a...

...in care homes. The researchers say that from 13th March to 1st May, care homes accounted for 19,938 excess deaths – a figure corroborated by the Office for National Statistics...

...fatalities in care homes and another 25,000 in people’s own homes. Surprisingly, only 8,000 of those excess deaths were in hospital, even though 30,000 people died from the virus on...

...entitled “Sweden Did in Fact Lock Down When it Came to Care Homes“. It argues that, when it comes to care homes, Sweden did lock down in that it imposed...