Fears of NHS transfers causing care home deaths raised early, Covid inquiry told
April 2020 email from No 10 official said evidence from Europe was that once coronavirus enters a care setting ‘many die’
Officials raised concerns at the start of Covid that discharging potentially infectious hospital patients into care homes could see “many die”, and that the health department had lost sight of this, the UK inquiry into the pandemic has heard.
Simon Ridley, the civil servant in charge of the government’s Covid taskforce, said the Cabinet Office and Downing Street felt it had to push Matt Hancock’s health department about the situation in care homes.
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