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• Patients were sent back to care homes without Covid test despite bosses’ plea

  29-05-2021 20:01
  
  Pressure piles up on Matt Hancock after managers say they felt ‘abandoned’ by health ministry in first waveThousands of hospital patients were allowed to return to their care homes without a Covid test despite a direct plea to the government from major care providers not to allow the practice, the Observer has been told.As the crisis began to unfold in early March 2020, providers held an emergency meeting with department of health officials in which they urged the government not to f
  
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• Pressure grows on Matt Hancock over Covid policy for care homes

  29-05-2021 09:00
  
  Woman whose father died in care home demands health secretary release risk assessment as part of court caseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMatt Hancock is facing further pressure over the measures put in place to protect care homes early in the coronavirus pandemic following allegations from Dominic Cummings that he misled the prime minister over the issue.A woman whose father died of Covid in a care home that admitted an infected hospital patient is demanding t
  
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