Restrictions on families visiting their loved ones in care homes during the pandemic felt cruel and punitive, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. The inquiry was told there had been
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Two police officers will appear in court charged with assaulting an elderly disabled man in a dementia care home. Pc Stephen Smith, 50, and Pc Rachel Comotto, 34, are charged
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Boris Johnson was like the “absent manager” of a football team during the pandemic, a public inquiry has heard. Mark Drakeford, the outgoing Labour First Minister for Wales, heavily criticised
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The UK Government not sharing information led to delays in introducing testing for care home residents in Wales during the pandemic, an inquiry has been told. Vaughan Gething (pictured), the
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Staffing and time pressures in social care risk the “nightmare scenario” that older people could be being unjustifiably deprived of their freedom, Age UK has warned in a new report.
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Covid infection in care homes was mainly spread by workers, an inquiry has heard. Dr Chris Williams, a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales, told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that
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Elderly residents living in care homes in Wales during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were put at risk by the Welsh Government’s “inadequate” response to the threat posed
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A coroner is to examine the circumstances that led to a number of deaths in a care home at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Some 11 deaths were reported
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Scotland’s former first minister has said she will carry regrets over decisions taken during the Covid-19 pandemic “for as long as I live” in emotional inquiry testimony. Nicola Sturgeon appeared
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Former health secretary Jeane Freeman has told the UK Covid Inquiry she will “regret for the rest of her life” care home deaths caused by Scottish Government decision-making. Ms Freeman
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