Matt Hancock defends Covid care home plan as ‘the least-worst decision’
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock defended the controversial policy of discharged hospital patients to care homes in the first stages of the COVİD-19 PANDEM, and British Covid-19 investigation, despite the destructive death work, “the decision to stay at least at least”, he said.
The policy implemented at the beginning of 2020 found that patients were rapidly moving from hospitals to care facilities to release the beds and prevent NHS from being overwhelmed as the virus spread.
This strategy remained intensively under investigation because he heard that there were more than 43,000 deaths, including virus, including virus, especially between March 2020 and July 2022.
At the beginning of this week, an officer described his wage as “Generation Massacre in Maintenance Houses”.
Before the investigation on Wednesday, Mr. Hancock admitted that his discharge policy was “an incredibly controversial problem”. However, he continued: “Nobody has given me an alternative to save more lives yet.”
The current focus on the maintenance sector of the investigation continues to demand real and accountability from the evidence of the elderly people who died in their favorite care homes.
However, there was no policy that required patients to be tested before the application or isolated asymptomatic patients until mid -April.
This is despite the awareness of the risks that cannot spread the virus of people who do not have Covid-19 symptoms.
Mr. Hancock, who resigned from the government in 2021 after breaking a social -distance guidance by establishing a relationship with a colleague, gave evidence of the investigation many times.
Especially when he returned for a full -day session to confront questions about the care sector, he said that the hospital discharge policy was a government decision, but was “directed by Lord Stevens by the NHS General Manager at that time by Lord Stevens.
“It was officially a government decision. It was signed by the Prime Minister. He was directed by Simon Stevens, the General Manager of NHS, but was widely discussed.”
In the investigation, in the testimony of Mr. Hancock, NHS said that Britain “insisted ında in politics, and although he did not take the decision himself, he took responsibility as a health secretary at the time.
He said this was a “incredibly contentious problem ,, but he said,“ No one has given me an alternative to saving more lives yet.
He said that it was not a good option: “At least the least decision can be taken then.”
He said that he made more pressure and that he had decided and defended the decision.
In 2022, the Supreme Court decided that the policies of discharge the government’s hospital patients to care homes were “illegal”.
Although the judges say that it is necessary to discharge patients to “maintain the capacity of NHS ,, they found that the government did not recommend that asymptomatic patients should be isolated from existing residents for 14 days after accepting.
When NHS bosses were instructed to start discharged on March 17, 2020, Mr. Hancock said that the authorities were “very hard to get more KKD to their maintenance homes. The Minister said that it was a “error ,, but then it was compatible with clinical guidance, but then it was a“ error ”.
In 2023, Mr. Hancock, who appeared for a separate module of the investigation, accepted the protective ring that he said he had been put around the nursing homes in the early stages of his pandema, and said he understood the power of people’s feeling.
Obviously, ridiculous and insulting, he said they were trying to throw a protective ring around the care houses, Covid’s spread of forest fire among the most vulnerable loved ones of society.
At a Down Street press conference on May 15, 2020, Hancock said: ık From the very beginning we have tried to throw a protective ring around our homes. ”
Mr. Hancock said to the investigation: “I would be stressed in that rhetoric piece, what I said ‘we tried’ – it was not possible to protect as much as I wanted.”
“Protection was not as much as we wanted, but the alternatives were even worse.
“We were trying to put as much protection as possible.
“The only thing I can do is to take you back to real decisions and the resources we have at that moment.
He continued: uk We were trying to do everything we could do, we were in gloomy conditions. ”
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Mr. Hancock said that the investigation of the “Brickbats shopping” investigation was not “useful ,, but continued:“ I have experienced everything we did as a big team of efforts, and we were all pulling as hard as possible to save lives – I said we were trying to throw a protective ring.
“Of course, it was not perfect. It was impossible – it was an unprecedented pandem and the context was extremely difficult.
“What I care about is the essence of what we do, the guards we put in place, and most importantly, we can do in the future to ensure that the existing options are better than last time.”
Mourning families have previously called this “protective ring” expression “nauseating lie” and “joke”.
COVİD-19 Justice Nicola Brook, a lawyer representing more than 7,000 families from the UK (CBFFJ), said that Mr. Hancock’s discharge policy is the least worst of the current decision.
“At that time, he knew that many care houses were not capable of isolating people from the hospital and that Covid was in the air.
“Frankly ridiculous and humiliating, the ministry’s policies, Covid’s most vulnerable loved ones, as they spread like a forest fire, they tried to throw a protective ring around the care houses, he said.
“Mr. Hancock claims that the decision to discharge people to care homes is directed by NHS’s General Manager Simon Stevens, but the investigation does not call him. We will ask for this decision urgently.”
The CBFFJ Group had already written to Baroness Heather Hallett, the President of the Investigation to express the concerns of some “key decision makers olmayan, which was not expected to be called in this module, including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Summarizing the status of the adult social care sector in the eruption of its pandema, Mr. Hancock said that “reform needed and needed it badly ,, but rejected the proposal that it was“ NHS Cinderella Service ”.
The authority said that the Pandemik unexpected situation plans prepared by local authorities for adult social care were “as good as useless ve and defined a“ accountability podge arasında between local councils and government offices.
In case of another pandemic hit, he claimed a number of suggestions, including a stock of insulation facilities in the maintenance homes and to provide a stock of personal protective equipment (KKD) in the maintenance homes.
The six modules of the investigation focused on the impact of the pandema on the adult social care sector, which is financed both in public and specially throughout the UK.
The public trials for the maintenance sector module are expected to continue until the end of July.
