Care providers are demanding an apology, calling Boris Johnson's comments a 'slap in the face'
‘We discovered too many care homes didn’t really follow the procedures in the way that they could have but we’re learning lessons the whole time.
The UK’s coronavirus crisis has seen 30,000 excess deaths in care homes – with around 20,000 directly linked to Covid-19 ‘Government guidance has come to the sector in stops and starts – with organisations grappling with over 100 pieces of additional guidance in the same number of days, much of which was not accompanied by an understanding of the operational implications of operating care services.She added that he must start ‘turning the dial up on reform and down on blame’.
‘It is worth remembering that in February the Government agency Public Health England told homes it was “very unlikely that people receiving care in a care home will become infected” and that homes didn’t need to do anything differently.‘It was many weeks later, after most homes had already put themselves into lockdown, that the advice changed.’
Shadow social care minister Liz Kendall said frontline care workers ‘have gone the extra mile and experienced things the rest of us can only imagine’
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