Former health secretary Matt Hancock has apologised for people’s “pain and anguish” during the coronavirus pandemic, after the High Court ruled the Government’s care home discharge policies were unlawful. On
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Vulnerable people were “badly let down” and exposed to a greater risk of death as untested patients were discharged into care homes in the early period of the pandemic, bereaved
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The High Court’s ruling that Government policies on discharging hospital patients into care homes were “unlawful” has “rubbed more salt in the wound” for families, a bereaved daughter has said.
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A planned £86,000 cap on care costs is set to be introduced after peers backed down over their demand for a Government rethink, amid concerns it is unfair to poorer
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Government policies on discharging untested hospital patients into care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic were “unlawful”, the High Court has ruled, undermining claims that a “protective ring”
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Bereaved relatives of people who died with coronavirus have called Boris Johnson “a liar and a charlatan debasing the office of Prime Minister” as he insisted he did not know
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A rethink has been demanded by peers of the Government’s planned £86,000 cap on care costs, amid concerns it was unfair to poorer people. The House of Lords backed by
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A Second World War veteran with dementia was forced out of his nursing home during the coronavirus pandemic when his money ran out after his local council failed to fund
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The Government’s planned £86,000 cap on personal care cost contributions is “regressive” and a “classic policy of levelling down”, ministers have been told. Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton)
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Care home residents, those aged 75 and over and people with weakened immune systems may still receive Covid booster jabs over the next six to 12 months, MPs have heard.
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