A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

Nursing homes that allowed visitors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic did not see higher infection rates, even during one of its most dangerous phases, academic researchers conclude in a ...

There was no scientific advice to test discharged patients at Covid's start, an ex-minister says.

The High Court ruled in 2022 that government policies on discharging hospital patients into care homes at the start of the pandemic were ‘unlawful’ ...

A former social care nurse has told the Covid Inquiry that she wrote her final wishes on a card in case she died at work ...

The Care Inspectorate wanted to visit the home in the west of Scotland where a number of residents had died in April 2020.

Module six of the inquiry is focused on the effect the pandemic had on both the publicly and privately funded adult social care sector across the UK.

NY auditors revealed state health officials failed to conduct timely adult care facility inspections and left critical problems unaddressed.