Care Homes

Amy Orton, ‘Care home staff looking after coronavirus residents face redundancy’, Leicestershire Live, 13 May 2020

Carmen Aguilar-Garcia and Sanya Burgess, ‘The number of ‘excess deaths’ in care homes and hospitals compared with normal times is revealed’, Sky News, 20 May 2020

‘Covid: Burn-out fears of ‘exhausted’ upaid carers’, BBC, 20 October 2020

David Pegg, Robert Booth and David Conn, ‘Secret report that gave ministers warning of care home coronavirus crisis’, The Guardian, 7 May 2020

Marina Hyde, ‘Welcome to Johnson’s alternative reality – where care home workers get the blame’, The Guardian, 7 July 2020

Robert Booth, ‘Covid-19: risk of death in UK care homes 13 times higher than in Germany’, The Guardian¸ 28 June 2020

Robert Booth, ‘Real care home death toll double official figure, study says’, The Guardian, 13 May 2020

Robert Booth, ‘UK care home inspector did not ask about Covid-19 deaths until April’, The Guardian, 15 April 2020

Rob Merrick, ‘Boris Johnson blames care home owners for deaths from coronavirus’, The Independent, 7 July 2020

Sophie John, Deaths involving COVID-19 in the care sector, England and Wales: deaths occurring up to 1 May 2020 and registered up to 9 May 2020 (provisional), electronic dataset, Office for National Statistics, 2020

Stephen Grey, Andrew MacAskill and Peter Nicholls, ‘In shielding its hospitals from COVID-19, Britain left many of the weakest exposed’, Reuters, 5 May 2020

Stephen Grey and Andrew MacAskill, ‘Review contradicts Boris Johnson on claims he ordered early lockdown at UK care homes’, Reuters, 15 May 2020

Update on policies for visiting arrangements in care homes, Department of Health and Social Care, 2020