BREAKING: Discharging hospital patients to care homes at start of pandemic was 'unlawful'
Discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of the pandemic was ‘unlawful’, High Court judges have ruled.
They said government policies allowing this failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents who were particularly vulnerable to Covid. Around the start of the pandemic, ministers insisted they had put a ‘protective ring’ around care home residents.
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