• Ministers missed chances to prepare social care for a pandemic, review finds

    Ministers missed chances to prepare social care for a pandemic, review finds
    Two-year study by Nuffield Trust and LSE says successive governments failed to make social care a priorityDistress and heartbreak for millions could have been avoided if the government had not missed opportunities to prepare social care for a pandemic, according to a big investigation into how the first wave of Covid hit care homes.A review of events in spring 2020, when almost 20,000 care home residents died with Covid in England and Wales, found it was the result of “letting one of our m

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