Former health secretary Jeane Freeman has said the opponents portraying the discharge of patients into care homes as a “death sentence” hurt her personally. At the beginning of the Covid-19
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A Government U-turn on plans to ban social care staff moving between care homes is the right decision, a nursing union has said. The Government said it has decided not
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Under fire Health Secretary Matt Hancock has insisted he told the Prime Minister people would be tested for coronavirus before being moved from hospitals to care homes “when we could
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Temporary measures to house people who were homeless during the coronavirus pandemic have been extended for three months. Public health measures allowing local authorities to use hotels or bed and
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Families of loved ones with dementia have been “pushed to breaking point” during the pandemic, according to Labour. Shadow health minister Liz Kendall said there has been a higher proportion
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The Government did everything it could to minimise Covid transmission, the Prime Minister has insisted, as he faced questions on why people were discharged from hospital to care homes with
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the “unsubstantiated” attacks on him by Dominic Cummings are “not true”, as he fought to save his career. Boris Johnson’s former aide accused Mr Hancock
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Between 20,000 and 30,000 lives could have been saved if the UK had locked down a week earlier, a leading adviser said, as he told how scientists grew increasingly concerned
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Tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily because of the Government’s failings over coronavirus and Boris Johnson is “unfit for the job” of Prime Minister, Dominic Cummings said. The Prime
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Coronavirus death rates in Scotland’s care homes were more than six times higher in larger facilities over the course of the pandemic, according to a report. New figures from the
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