There was no scientific advice to test all patients discharged from hospitals into care homes at the start of the Covid ...

A public health agency official has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry that visiting in care homes during the pandemic was about "managing risk". Heather Reid, the interim director of Nursing, Midwifery and ...

Nursing homes that allowed visitors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic did not see higher infection rates, even during one of its most dangerous phases, academic researchers conclude in a ...

The UK Covid Inquiry will this week look at the impact of the pandemic on care homes and the agony felt by ­residents and ...

The High Court ruled in 2022 that government policies on discharging hospital patients into care homes at the start of the pandemic were ‘unlawful’ ...

Former health secretary Matt Hancock denied claims the government's attempt to throw a protective ring around care homes in early 2020 was empty rhetoric.

Matt Hancock's 'belligerent' defence of the Government's support for care homes during the Covid-19 pandemic has come under ...

COVID is still with us, and there will be other pandemics. It’s critical that we don’t forget the lessons we’ve learned.” ...

HuffPost UK asked GP, Dr Suzanne Wylie, a medical adviser for IQdoctor, about who may need yearly vaccines. “As with the flu ...

A large-scale study of older adults found that severe COVID-19 infections requiring hospitalizations are associated with accelerated cognitive decline. Milder cases that do not require hospital care ...

NY auditors revealed state health officials failed to conduct timely adult care facility inspections and left critical problems unaddressed.

Module six of the inquiry is focused on the effect the pandemic had on both the publicly and privately funded adult social care sector across the UK.