03-07-2020, 04:51 PM
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Coronavirus: Almost 30,000 'excess' care homes deaths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53280011Care homes in England will carry out routine testing from Monday.
There were just over 66,000 deaths of care home residents in England and Wales between 2 March and 12 June this year, compared to just under 37,000 deaths last year.
Covid-19 was the leading cause of death for male care home residents, accounting for a third of all deaths, and the second most-common cause of death for female residents, after dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
While 20,000 mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, another 10,000 of the excess deaths were registered to other, non-Covid, causes.
Previous analysis from the ONS has suggested that many of those "non-Covid" deaths could have involved undiagnosed coronavirus.
Three-quarters of these deaths occurred within the care homes themselves and a quarter were care home residents who died in hospitals.
03-07-2020, 07:18 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Almost 30,000 'excess' care homes deaths
This is a direct reflection on the depleted facilities of the NHS - having be subjected to years of Tory cuts and privitisation, they just haven't got the beds - hence the Nightingale Hospitals. BUT..........I'd bet none of the elderly got into the Nightgales - they would have been sent back to their care homes and spread the virus to others.It's a euphemism for yet more Tory cuts!
07-07-2020, 10:55 AM
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Re: Coronavirus: Almost 30,000 'excess' care homes deaths
Boris Johnson blames high death rate in care homes on providers failing to follow health guidelineshttps://www.thesun.co.uk/news/120471...elines-deaths/
The National Care Forum (NCF) hit back by telling the PM to start "turning the dial up on reform and down on blame".
Boris Johnson criticised over 'cowardly' care home comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53315178
Earlier, the National Care Forum said Mr Johnson's remarks were "frankly hugely insulting" to care workers. Vic Rayner, executive director of the forum which represents 120 social care charities, told BBC Newsnight that care homes followed the guidance "to the letter" but the government's attention was focused on hospitals.
Shadow care minister Liz Kendall told the BBC that care workers had been "abandoned" by the government, adding: "This attempt to shift responsibility is a new low."
The government maintains it threw a "protective ring" around care homes - a claim critics say is at odds with failures in providing personal protective equipment (PPE) and allowing hospital patients to be discharged without being tested.
07-07-2020, 12:51 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Almost 30,000 'excess' care homes deaths
Originally Posted by Lindyloo
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The words "POT" and "BLACK" come to mind! What a nasty, squirmy, overweight, balding, twat he is!
Here's a detailed summary/timeline of the inept government's approach to dealing (or not dealing) with COVID-19 in care homes and care patients in hospitals:
Reality Check
Coronavirus: What guidance did care homes get from the government?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52674073
A litany of failures resulting in 30,000 excess deaths .....
07-07-2020, 05:24 PM
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No 10 refuses to apologise for PM's 'crass' care home remarkhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53324089
"Care providers were sent conflicting guidance throughout this outbreak, staff could not access testing until mid-April and are still not tested routinely, PPE supplies have been inadequate, thousands of families have lost their loved ones in care homes to this disease, care workers themselves have died on the front line," he told MPs.
And Unison, a trade union which represents workers providing public services, said: "It's despicable for Boris Johnson to blame incredible, dedicated care workers for his own government's failings.
"Care staff have kept working throughout to help the vulnerable, putting their own health at risk with little or no protective kit and without testing.
"The prime minister should be ashamed, take responsibility and commit to proper, lasting reform of social care."
07-07-2020, 05:45 PM
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It's no surprise though is it?It's damage limitation and avoidance tactics ready for when the blame game begins.
My understanding was that the NHS hospitals sent a lot of elderly people back to care homes without properly testing them?
If that's the case there'll be thousands of grieving relatives, some maybe wanting compensation off the government .... or at least some kind of investigation.
Boris seems to be incapable of apologising for anything ..or even showing any empathy or passing interest in the UK people.
He showed the same lack of concern over the people flooded out of their homes in Yorkshire.
In that respect he's a very poor PM. Possibly the worst we've ever had, despite his pithy trademark platitude ... ' I absolutely understand .........'
07-07-2020, 06:06 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Almost 30,000 'excess' care homes deaths
Originally Posted by Morticia
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My understanding was that the NHS hospitals sent a lot of elderly people back to care homes without properly testing them?If that's the case there'll be thousands of grieving relatives, some maybe wanting compensation off the government .... or at least some kind of investigation.
Moving patients from hospitals to care homes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52674073
This policy was implemented to free up beds in advance of an expected surge in coronavirus patients.
On 2 April, the rules on discharging to care homes were clarified, saying "negative [coronavirus] tests are not required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home".
Even elderly patients who tested positive could be admitted to care homes, according to the document, if measures - such as wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and isolation - were used.
From 15 April, the government said that all patients discharged from hospitals would be tested for coronavirus.
By this date, over 28,116 elderly patients had been moved from hospitals to care homes in England but there are no statistics to show how many cases of coronavirus were transmitted this way.
Up to this point more than 5,700 care home residents had died in England and Wales (either in homes or in hospital).
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