{"id":1934,"date":"2020-07-20T17:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2020-07-20T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:17:43","slug":"covid-19-and-social-care-chss-expert-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2020\/07\/20\/covid-19-and-social-care-chss-expert-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Social Care &#8211; CHSS expert comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">CHSS Research Associate Dr Rasa Mikelyte has recently featured on KMTV commenting on Coronavirus and UK Social Care.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">COVID-19: Why have UK care home residents been so badly affected?\u00a0 29\/6\/20<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Rasa talks about the &#8216;devastating but not surprising&#8217; 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Watch the KMTV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/video\/care-home-residents-in-the-uk-more-likely-to-die-from-coronavirus-than-in-most-european-countries-31649\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Inadequate Government support &#8216;from the start&#8217; for UK Care Homes:\u00a0 7\/7\/20<\/h4>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the KMTV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/video\/kents-carers-left-fuming-as-boris-johnson-blames-them-for-handling-of-coronavirus-31699\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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?\u00a0 29\/6\/20 Rasa talks about the &#8216;devastating but not surprising&#8217; statistics around Coronavirus in UK care homes. She gives her views on why they compare so badly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2020\/07\/20\/covid-19-and-social-care-chss-expert-comments\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35851,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[10478,167396,19014,135302,210820],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}