A civil servant's assertion that there was a "generational slaughter within care homes" in the early days of the pandemic is a phrase that "chimes with the experience of thousands of our families", ...

There was no scientific advice to test all patients discharged from hospitals into care homes at the start of the Covid ...

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 ...

The Covid inquiry will examine the impact of the pandemic on care services, starting on Monday.

Learn about the pressures social care nurses were under during the Covid-19 pandemic, through evidence given at the UK ...

Relatives of care home residents tell the Covid inquiry they will never get over how their loved ones died.

Matt Hancock has insisted that discharging patients from hospitals to care homes in the early stages of the pandemic was “the least-worst decision” at the time.

Discharging patients from hospitals to care homes in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic was “the least-worst decision” at the time, former health secretary Matt Hancock has said.

When the pandemic hit in early 2020, hospital patients were rapidly discharged into care homes - but there was no policy requiring them to be tested for COVID before admission.

The former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told the Covid inquiry that discharging patients from hospitals into care homes ...

Covid inquiry hears of care home 'slaughter' When Mrs Halligan died, her family were refused permission to see her body or to "say their last goodbyes", Mrs McCusker told the inquiry.