The weekly Covid-19 test results for staff at her Buckinghamshire care home often arrive in the small hours. Her face was beaming.”There have not been enough smiles in Britain’s care homes this last year. Our anxiety levels are quite high at the minute.”In objective, clinical terms, things are better in care homes than in the spring – for now. Hospitals discharged untested patients into care homes and there was no testing even in infected homes. Finally, says Roche, the last year has brought clarity about where care homes and the elderly stand in the UK’s “pecking order”.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2021 06:01 UTC