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<blockquote data-quote="Tannith" data-source="post: 2308938" data-attributes="member: 422465"><p><strong>"This morning read that government asking care homes to have discharged covid patients again or in future." </strong>I heard that too - on the news last night. (ITV I think).They showed a highlighted document from a Local Authority to care homes in it's area asking them to confirm, by a certain date, whether or not they would be prepared to take these people without a covid test. Since Local Authorities buy a large proportion of beds in care homes they would presumably have quite a lot of power over the care homes. Possibly there is some kind of veiled threat of loss of business for care homes that refuse. Last March many said they were "under pressure" to take these patients. It looks as if in some areas at least, the whole care home scandal is about to be repeated. In the full knowledge of what happened last time. Shame on the LAs who are doing this!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tannith, post: 2308938, member: 422465"] [B]"This morning read that government asking care homes to have discharged covid patients again or in future." [/B]I heard that too - on the news last night. (ITV I think).They showed a highlighted document from a Local Authority to care homes in it's area asking them to confirm, by a certain date, whether or not they would be prepared to take these people without a covid test. Since Local Authorities buy a large proportion of beds in care homes they would presumably have quite a lot of power over the care homes. Possibly there is some kind of veiled threat of loss of business for care homes that refuse. Last March many said they were "under pressure" to take these patients. It looks as if in some areas at least, the whole care home scandal is about to be repeated. In the full knowledge of what happened last time. Shame on the LAs who are doing this! [/QUOTE]
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