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• The Guardian view on care homes: take responsibility and apologise | Editorial

  12-06-2020 19:25
  
  Hospitals were ordered to send patients to care homes without routine testing during the pandemic. Boris Johnson needs to say sorry for this deadly failure to protect the elderly.“We need to do better. Because we are failing our parents, our grandparents, our elders – the greatest generation who built this country. We need to care for them properly.” These are welcome words from a prime minister prepared to accept responsibility for the tsunami of deaths in care homes. Unfortun
  
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• Staffordshire care home rated Outstanding by CQC

  12-06-2020 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Staffordshire care home has been rated Outstanding, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).   CQC inspected Crispin Court Care Home, Stafford, in January 2020. The service accommodates up to 70 older people, including people living with dementia. Under CQC’s inspection programme, services are rated according to whether they are safe, effective, caring, […]
  
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• Special “Clap for Carers” thank you at Inchmarlo

  12-06-2020 07:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Homeowners and care home residents at Inchmarlo Retirement Village near Banchory on Royal Deeside used the occasion of this week’s “Clap for Carers” to share their own special thank you. They gathered in the care home’s sensory garden and outside their own homes within the 100-acre estate on Thursday evening to pay tribute to all […]
  
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• Government ignored warning to stockpile PPE as Covid-19 spread

  12-06-2020 01:01
  
  Watchdog also confirms 25,000 hospital patients were sent to care homes before testing became routineCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government’s plan to distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus pandemic was undermined because officials failed to stockpile gowns and visors despite warnings to do so, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has revealed.The report published on Friday by the National Audit Office (NAO) said this m
  
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