Email suggesting discharging hospital patients into residential care as Covid unfolded has prompted furious response

 

"The head of the UK Heath Security Agency is facing a growing backlash after it emerged she suggested that discharging Covid-infected hospital patients to care homes would be “clinically appropriate” to protect the NHS from collapse.

 

Care home providers and the families of those who died after contracting Covid while in residential care said the revelations confirmed their suspicions at the time, adding that it disproved the claim of ministers to have thrown a “protective ring” around the homes.

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Appearing at the inquiry last week, Harries – who has since been promoted to run the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and given a damehood – conceded that the email “sounded awful”. However, she had been taking “a very, very high-level view” of what would need to happen if the NHS was overwhelmed with an “enormous explosion of cases”.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/02/she-sacrificed-care-home-residents-health-chief-jenny-harries-under-fire-after-uk-covid-inquiry-revelations

 

Edited December 4, 20232 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

5 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

discharging Covid-infected hospital patients to care homes would be “clinically appropriate” to protect the NHS from collapse.

...diseases, like fashion, change fast! it's no longer hype to be infected by covid. so please, go home and get treated there!.