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• Judge says care home residents in England are legally allowed visitors

  03-11-2020 11:47
  
  Remark challenges government policy which effectively bans visits in areas of high Covid-19 infectionHeartache over Covid visits ban in English care homesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA senior judge has said friends and family can legally visit their loved ones in care homes, in an apparent challenge to recent government policy which has effectively banned routine visits in areas of high Covid-19 infection.Mr Justice Hayden, vice-president of the court of prot
  
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• 'All my dad does is cry': heartache over Covid visits ban in English care homes

  03-11-2020 11:47
  
  As residents suffer from isolation, families are frustrated with a lack of action by governmentNews: Judge says care home residents in England allowed visitorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“The care home offers a Zoom call once a week for 20 minutes, but all my dad does is cry,” said Penny Ogden, 58, who hasn’t been able to hold her 89-year old father, John Ross, for coming up to eight months. “He says: ‘I’m finished here, I
  
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• Balhousie Care finds virtual way to ‘open doors’ to public for tours

  03-11-2020 06:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Since March, care homes across the country have been unable to welcome members of the public to tour their homes as they take every precaution to protect residents from the threat of Coronavirus.
   
  One of Scotland’s leading providers of residential elderly and specialist care, Balhousie Care Group, has come up with a solution – inviting people into their homes through virtual tours.
   
  Led by home managers or other key members of the home teams, the tours enable people outsi
  
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