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• Grieving daughter wins first stage of legal fight on Covid releases to care homes

  19-11-2020 21:04
  
  Cathy Gardner granted full hearing in case against government over hospital discharges without testsA grieving daughter who lost her father to Covid-19 in an Oxfordshire care home has won the first stage of a high court challenge against the government’s policy of discharging hospital patients into care homes without tests.Dr Cathy Gardner has been granted a full hearing in her case which alleges the government misled the public by claiming to have “thrown a protective ring” ar
  
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• Covid-19 deaths must prompt better healthcare for people with learning disabilities

  19-11-2020 09:11
  
  The government, NHS and health and social care providers must act to tackle health inequalities Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople with learning disabilities are much more likely to die from coronavirus. And black and Asian people with learning disabilities are even more likely to die from coronavirus.This isn’t because the virus targets people with learning disabilities. It is because society fails to do enough to support the health and wellbeing of t
  
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