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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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James Tapper

Bill aims to stop care homes in UK preventing visits due to Covid

A nurse looks out from a restricted zone at a care home in April 2020
A nurse looks out from a restricted zone at a care home in April 2020. Some care providers are still limiting access to visitors. Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP

People would be given a legal right to visit their relatives in care homes and stop providers threatening those who complain with eviction under new legislation proposed last week.

The private members bill, introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath in an effort to spur ministers into action, is designed to stop a small minority of care homes from preventing or limiting visits due to Covid, more than two and half years after the first lockdown began.

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