COVID-19 and Social Care – CHSS expert comments

CHSS Research Associate Dr Rasa Mikelyte has recently featured on KMTV commenting on Coronavirus and UK Social Care.

COVID-19: Why have UK care home residents been so badly affected?  29/6/20

Rasa talks about the ‘devastating but not surprising’ statistics around Coronavirus in UK care homes. She gives her views on why they compare so badly to other European countries, and what might have been done differently to avoid such a high death toll.

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Inadequate Government support ‘from the start’ for UK Care Homes:  7/7/20

Rasa asserts that inadequate support from Government and espeically a policy of Care Homes having to take in COVID positive patients from hospital, led to the dire situation witnessed in social care.

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