Covid inquiry begins examination of impact on social care sector

The COVID investigation will begin to examine the impact of pandema on care services for elderly and disabled people on Monday.

Mourning families say that they have been waiting for this moment for years that explain the way of sweeping as one of the most obvious and devastating failures of Covid’s care homes.

Approximately 46,000 nursing home residents died in Covid in the UK and Wales between March 2020 and January 2022, many in the first weeks of the pandema.

The government says he supports the investigation and is determined to learn from him.

There are important questions that families and care personnel want to respond to some hospital patients, including why the decision was made in March 2020 in order to rapidly discharge care homes.

In part, they accuse this for drawing the virus to care homes in the first stages of Pandem.

Blanket, some maintenance of the residents of the house by medical services “animation” notifications and families for months to see the policies that prevent the love of their loved ones.

“It was a terrible, terrible time,” Maureen Lewis, the ruler of St Ives Lodge Care Home in northeast of London, says, “he says.

The house cares about 35 people, many of whom are demons.

When we visited at the beginning of this month, some of the residents were sitting around a table in the food area and making bright flower basket collages. The staff and residents chatted with each other and sat down with a razor.

This was a great contrast to our first visit on April 15, 2020. Then, in the personnel preservative teams, the face fingers with masks covered with masks. Three weeks have passed since England was locked to stop Covid’s spread. Nevertheless, St Ives Lodge had lost six inhabitants a week.

“This was the hardest. And that’s the beginning of Covid, Ma Maureen remembers Maureen.

On April 17, 2020, the number of deaths in the maintenance homes reached the summit and 540 people died in England and Wales within one day.

St Ives Lodge was locked in mid -March, but developed a resident Covid symptoms returning from the hospital. Those who lived at the same dining table quickly showed the same signs. They died in seven days. The house later lost another resident to the virus.

At that time, Maureen said that doctors and regional nurses refused to come, how care houses were fighting to get protective equipment (KKD) and that there was no useful guidance from the government.

“We were like a mini hospital,” BBC News said, “He’s dealing with end -of -life care … He’s investigating what to do”.

It was an experience defined by home administrators who felt abandoned by the government and NHS in the first months of Pandema.

When I look back, Maureen says: “No protocol, no test and [the NHS] Basically, he returned from the inhabitants to care homes. It was normally discharged, but we were in a outbreak. “

He wants the investigation to find out why such decisions are taken and wants people in responsibility positions to be taken into account.

He is angry with former Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock because of his statement on May 15, 2020.

“There was no protection ring for care houses, or he says. He continued: “He needs to receive accountability for his decisions.”

Mr. Hancock is expected to give evidence in the next few days. It will be his seventh and probably the last appearance.

For Jean Adamson, the evidence to be heard in the investigation in the coming weeks will be the most important.

His father Aldrick died on April 15, 2020 with Covid. When he last saw him, he stood outside, looked at the window of the nursing home a few days before he passed away. He was devastated because he could not be with him.

“We were not allowed to say goodbye to him, hold his hand, or he says. “This is an experience that will remain with me forever. There is no grief like this.”

He also has questions about the policy of discharge patients to homes.

On March 17, 2020, NHS sent a letter to all hospitals telling them to release the beds.

For the next four weeks Estimated 25,000 Patients It was discharged to care homes, many of them were not tested for Covid.

On April 2, 2020, Government “negative [Covid] Tests are not required before patients are discharged to care homes.

This changed on 15 April 2020 the day Aldrick Adamson died. The new government guidance said that everyone who was discharged from hospital to care environment will be tested first.

Jean Adamson believes that the virus of patients coming from the hospital to his father’s care house may have seeded there.

Other factors such as the spread of the virus in the general community between the care houses and other factors will have played a role, but it is a choice to transfer patients to care homes without being tested or isolated.

“This was a reckless decision, or he says. “The way my father and tens of thousands of other care houses are sacrificed. He really takes me because I think he’s throwing away from the discrimination of aging and disability.”

In the last five years since his father’s death, he became an active member of the campaign group, COVİD-19 Justice families leaning for England.

The group said that the investigation wanted the families of the investigation to look at the ban on home visits.

In addition, some people do not try “Routine Resuscitation Orders. [DNARs]”, Without interviewing relatives or without an assessment.

“There was abuse of resuscitation policy. We must understand how it emerged, or he says.

The investigation will also examine the difficulties faced by care workers who support people in their own homes.

This stage is expected to last five weeks and the report is not made until next year.

For both Maureen Lewis and Jean Adamson, the memories of Pandemin remain traumatic, and both say that what they want is real now.

“When we have the next pandema and what’s here should never be again, we need to understand to learn forward lessons,” Jean says.

Maureen wants to get to know how care services survive without much help.

In the future, he says: “There must be more investment” and better planning for emergencies.