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Discharging of elderly patients from hospitals to care homes at the beginning of the pandemic.

political analyst · 2022-05-14 12:47:51

Recently, the High Court in London ruled that the UK government's policy of discharging elderly patients from hospitals and into care homes was unlawful. If the managers of care homes wanted to protect their residents, then they could have instead told the hospitals to take those patients back, couldn't they?

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14-05-2022 1:47pm

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Recently, the High Court in London ruled that the UK government's policy of discharging elderly patients from hospitals and into care homes was unlawful. If the managers of care homes wanted to protect their residents, then they could have instead told the hospitals to take those patients back, couldn't they?

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