People with Covid discharged to care homes over fears for NHS, inquiry told
by Jane Kirby
Nov 29, 2023
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People with Covid-19 were discharged to care homes over fears about the NHS getting “clogged up”, the pandemic inquiry has heard.
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, England’s deputy chief medical officer during the pandemic and now head of the UK Health Security Agency, told the inquiry of how an email she sent in mid-March 2020 described the “bleak picture” and “top line awful prospect” of what needed to happen if hospitals overflowed.
Discharging people to care homes – where thousands of people died of Covid – has been one of the central controversies
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