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Covid inquiry to look at impact on care services
- The Covid Inquiry reopened on July 2, 2025, beginning a five-week module focused on the adult social care sector in the UK during the pandemic.
- This focus follows early 2020 government decisions to rapidly discharge hospital patients, including Covid-positive and untested cases, into care homes to free hospital beds.
- Former minister Helen Whately and other officials warned that transferring Covid patients into care homes significantly increased risks despite PPE, while widespread transmission from asymptomatic carriers occurred.
- According to official statistics, nearly 18,500 residents of care homes in England died with Covid between mid-March and mid-June 2020, representing about 40% of all Covid-related fatalities during that timeframe, prompting families who lost loved ones to call for honesty and accountability.
- Care sector leaders described government actions as a 'crushing blow to an already fragile sector,' and ongoing inquiry hearings may shape future policies including fair pay agreements and social care reforms.
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Why Britain’s social care sector would crumble with another pandemic
Social care is in a worse position now than before the pandemic following the harmful effects of successive government policies, the head of the National Care Association has said.As the Covid inquiry reopens today and its focus moves to the care sector, Nadra Ahmed told The i Paper that the sector was “badly damaged” by the then Tory government’s “no jab, no job” policy, announced in September 2021, which led to an exodus of 40,000 staff most o…
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