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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

Care home residents ‘failed’ by government discharging Covid patients as Hancock slammed for ‘despicable lie’

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A woman whose elderly father died from Covid has called on Matt Hancock to apologise over a “despicable lie” over care homes being protected after a court ruled the government’s policy of discharging patients to residential settings was unlawful.

High Court judges on Wednesday ruled that discharging Covid patients to care homes without testing them was unlawful.

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