A study from the Queen’s Nursing Institute, the world’s oldest nursing charity, has found that nursing homes were put under “constant” pressure to accept patients with coronavirus while being regularly refused treatment from hospitals and GPs for residents who became ill at the height of the Covid crisis.
Homes were told hospitals had blanket “no admissions” policies during April and May, according to the large survey of care home nurses and managers, while GPs and local managers imposed unlawful do not resuscitate orders on residents.
Carried out between May and June this year, the study establishes an evidence base of the impact on the sector from coronavirus, in addition to the official figures showing care home death rates.
Full story in The Independent, 23 August 2020