There are some observations I have made on this subject.
Firstly, it is right that care homes should be trialling this type of rapid test to allow family to meet relatives in the homes.
It needs to be fixed sooner rather than later..
Most care homes are privately run with many people having to sell their homes or family having to personally pay for the care.
Care homes are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination.
My personal experience of private care homes has not been great, so maybe I am negatively biased..
The home my nan was run by a woman who owned 2 other homes.
The sale of my nans house covered 3 years of her stay before she was reduced to the £15k savings she was allowed. The state would only cover a fraction of her care cost, the rest was paid for by the family, we all paid what we could afford.
The owner would go on regular long weekend breaks to Dubai, she drove around in a Bentley and an Audi TT.
Towards the end of her life, my mum would be having regular meetings with the owner to complain about the poor care and service being provided.
Most of the care staff were really kind but were too stretched to be able to offer the care they would have wanted to; they voiced their concerns in private but would not do so publicly through fear of losing their job.
These are private businesses, some owned by big health companies who have collosal incomes and unlike many businesses this year, their incomes have not been affected by the pandemic.
So surely it is the responsibility of the homes to fund this equipment and purchase the test kits, not the government's?
Surely this is something they could have done far sooner, many have the infrastructure already and a few were doing private covid "fit to fly" testing.
It seems to me that they have sat back and done nothing when in reality, they could have had this in place far sooner. |
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It seems to me that they have sat back and done nothing when in reality, they could have had this in place far sooner. "
Care homes are all subject to both CQC and the local authority rules.
Whilst some may have had the ability and resources to put this in place, the decision to do so wasn't (and still isn't) theirs to make.
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By *om girlCouple (FF)
over a year ago
South Yorkshire |
Care homes happy to take your
£1000s every year but not allpw you to see loved ones
And i see no Major News papers or media outlets saying much about the government failing sending
People from hospital back to care home with covid...but instead they blame people for not following the rules |
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"Care homes happy to take your
£1000s every year but not allpw you to see loved ones
And i see no Major News papers or media outlets saying much about the government failing sending
People from hospital back to care home with covid...but instead they blame people for not following the rules"
Yes. trying to move along the bed blockers normally is a chore let alone with Covid-19 patients, I do think there should be a halfway place for care home Covid-19 patients recuperation rather than the homes having to section off areas to take positive patients and put others at risk |
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Social workers at the start of all this were put under enormous pressure to release people from hospital into care homes to free up the beds . They were discharged back into them without being tested thus people were infected and that was the touch paper , care homes are full of elderly frail very often people in poor health with compromised immune systems ..... |
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