Policies designed to prevent UK hospitals from being overwhelmed pushed a greater burden onto care homes. The elderly were put at greater risk by measures to admit only the sickest for hospital treatment
Even as the UK government was promising to protect the elderly and vulnerable from the coronavirus, its policies were putting them and their carers at risk. A Reuters investigation has found that care homes were neglected – with deadly consequences.
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