Releasing English hospital patients into care homes 'not illegal'
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Government hits back at court challenge to its handling of pandemic in care homes
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Releasing hospital patients into care homes without Covid-19 tests was not illegal, lawyers for the UK health secretary, Matt Hancock, have said in a rebuttal of a high court challenge to the government’s handling of the pandemic in care homes.
Dr Cathy Gardner, who lost her father, Michael Gibson, to Covid-19 in a care home that accepted discharges, claims that Hancock misled the public when he said the government threw “a protective ring” around care homes where more than 16,000 have died across the UK. Continue reading...
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