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• Covid-19 deaths and ‘warehousing’ of care | Letter

  19-07-2020 18:40
  
  Vulnerable elderly people are being abandoned to business interests, and housed in large homes where more money can be made, writes former shadow care minister David Hinchliffe I don’t think anyone will be surprised at the Advanced Care Research Centre at Edinburgh University establishing the greater likelihood of coronavirus outbreaks in larger care homes (Covid-19 outbreaks up to 20 times more likely in large care homes, study finds, 14 July).Almost 30 years ago in the House of Commons I
  
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• Please, Matt Hancock, let us see our loved ones with dementia | Nicci Gerrard

  19-07-2020 08:30
  
  The health secretary has said family members can visit soon. Why won’t he say when?Ten days ago, in response to a letter from seven dementia charities and organisations, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, announced that the ban on visits to care homes was “coming to an end very soon”. That brought a huge sense of relief to the thousands of family carers who have been unable to see their relatives for almost four months. But since then: nothing. Was it an empty promise, a disgr
  
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