Friday, 21 November 2025

A reminder of how unconcerned the Government was about the COVID crisis in care homes

 

Amidst the carnage of COVID was a total failure of the Government to get to grips with what was happening in care homes where thousands did unnecessarily. I was fortunate in June 2020 to help break this story before any other media outlet thanks to Kevin Gopal at the Big Issue North and Sharon Reed down in Weymouth. ITV was due to break the story nationally but, unfortunately, they had too many staff off with COVID to make the trip down from London to the South Coast.

Here is the story.

 

TEST CRISIS AT CARE HOME

An experienced care home manager has attacked the government for what she believes is a systematic, ongoing failure to develop a coronavirus testing system for care home staff and residents.  

Sharon Reed (pictured) of Weymouth’s Danmor Lodge private care home also feels Matt Hancock and Helen Whately, health and social care ministers, do not understand how care homes operate and have failed to defend those working in them.

https://www.bigissuenorth.com/news/2020/06/test-crisis-at-care-home/

 

https://markwrite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/care-homes-big-issue-north-magazine-2-june-2020.mp3

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