Care home residents were treated as “something of an afterthought” as government failures during the pandemic allowed Covid-19 to “spread like wildfire”, a damning inquiry report has found.
Baroness Heather Hallett, the retired Court of Appeal judge who chairs the Covid-19 inquiry, highlighted how the government’s ‘protecting the NHS’ mantra came “at the expense” of care patients and staff, with action being taken “too late”.
