Hopes raised for end to Covid-19 crisis in UK care homes as death rates fall
Article by Robert Booth in The Guardian yesterday, reveals that testing is still an issue in care homes with tests that have been carried out not reaching the labs to be processed in some instances.
I find it disdainful that there has been no real address from government on the management of care homes or any real plan so far, and that the only information available has been from the media. However there is a sign, perhaps a silent acknowledgement that care homes were never equipped to deal with a epidemic of this magnitude as Booth writes:
Article by Robert Booth in The Guardian yesterday, reveals that testing is still an issue in care homes with tests that have been carried out not reaching the labs to be processed in some instances.
I find it disdainful that there has been no real address from government on the management of care homes or any real plan so far, and that the only information available has been from the media. However there is a sign, perhaps a silent acknowledgement that care homes were never equipped to deal with a epidemic of this magnitude as Booth writes:
"...by the end of this week the NHS would also supply a named contact to help train care home staff – including in infection control – and that each home would be allocated a named clinician, a reflection of concern that care staff, who are not medically trained, have struggled to cope with the new virus... "