Dr Cathy Gardner has demanded the health secretary retract his claim that he placed a 'protective ring' around care homes.
She also wants an admission that guidelines allowing coronavirus patients to be discharged from hospitals into care homes untested was unlawful.
"Patients with a positive COVID test were even discharged from hospital back to care homes without consideration of the consequential risk.
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