Nursing homes were bullied into accepting Covid patients from hospitals, damning report finds.

[2greys]

Report finds seventy homes accepted hospital patients untested for Covid-19.

A fifth of care homes surveyed received a Covid-19 positive patient from hospital.

Managers in some homes placed unlawful do not resuscitate orders on residents.

Nursing homes were pressured into accepting patients with coronavirus while simultaneously being refused treatment for residents by hospitals and GPs, according to research.

A report by the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) found homes were told hospitals had a blanket 'no admissions' policy at the height of the pandemic.

The QNI, a charity which focuses on the improvement of nursing care of people in their own home, found care home residents were regularly refused treatment in April and May.

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[2greys]

Sharon can testify that all the above happened where she works! I did post about this at the time.

[Badbessie in reply to 2greys]

A number of my relatives are carers both in homes and the community. Sadly they tell the same story.

[SquirrelsHolt]

Good morning to you 2greys and a really sad and somewhat expected, report youve given us the link to. Many thanks. My dad is in a Care Home which had no COVID-19 clients or staff as they were able to purchase enough PPE early on and of course visits from 3rd week in March weren't allowed. However almist 13 days ago , onne p/t nursing assistant tested positive and still no proper visits allowed. I think if the whole truth came out relating to all Care Homes from the start of COVID19 until end of year (God willing it will have disappeared by then), then all the flaws can be seen and something can be learnt from it all. 🐿

[Tugun]

Unfortunately I saw enough before Covid-19 to know what would happen.

[Kristicats]

It’s exactly what we were saying was happening at the time?🤷‍♀️

[2greys in reply to Kristicats]

Yes, it makes you wonder why it has taken all this time to come to their conclusions. It seems that we have our "fingers on the pulse" better than they do.

[Kristicats in reply to 2greys]

Mmm wonder when we will hear about the Liverpool match and the music concert that got us off to a flying start with the virus🤷‍♀️🙃

[emmo]

I agree entirely, this was obvious at the time and also that many smaller nursing homes would be unable to cope with the coovid 19 As it was also obvious that those people shielded were being

got out of the way for the expected mainstream

patients and hospitals. The so called planners have a lot to answer for.

[Ergendl]

I couldn't believe the stupidity of the government at the time, forcing nursing homes to accept untested patients from hospital. Had anyone with any form of medical experience been consulted, they would have told them what a dangerous idea it was.