The Latest Breaking News from Cathy Gardner

Grieving relatives plan legal action against government over Covid care home deaths

The government and potential co-defendants have been alerted to the pending legal action

Evening Standard · Dec 23, 2022

Matt Hancock’s I’m a Celeb appearance ‘insulting’, says bereaved daughter

Dr Cathy Gardner, whose father died from Covid in a care home, urges viewers to boycott ITV show

The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022

Government will not challenge court ruling on care home discharge policies

A spokesperson said the Government did not see a public interest in an appeal on certain points.

The Independent UK · May 4, 2022

Families of care home residents who died of Covid say government ‘threw loved ones to the wolves’

Matt Hancock wrongly claimed to have thrown a ‘protective ring’ around care homes, bereaved relatives say after damning High Court ruling

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2022

Families demand Boris Johnson resigns over unlawful Tory Covid care home policy

Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris brought legal action against the Government for its care home policies in early 2020, when they lost their fathers Michael Gibson and Donald Harris

Daily Mirror · Apr 27, 2022

"Now I'll take the Government to court for my dad": Ruling on Covid deaths in care homes 'opens floodgates'

"They were trying to hide it, trying to stop it. Now I can seek justice for my dad. But it’s not just my father, it’s for the people who didn’t have a voice.”

Manchester Evening News · Apr 27, 2022

Vulnerable ‘badly let down’ when untested patients were discharged to care homes

Ex-health secretary Matt Hancock’s claim of a “protective ring” around care homes during the pandemic has been branded “a joke”.

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2022

Government policy on allowing untested hospital patients into care homes was 'unlawful', court rules

“It is also now clear that Matt Hancock’s claim that the Government threw a protective ring around care homes in the first wave of the pandemic was nothing more than a despicable lie of which he ought to be ashamed and for which he ought to apologise.”

Manchester Evening News · Apr 27, 2022

Policies on discharging patients into care homes during Covid ruled unlawful

Bereaved families and care groups said the High Court ruling proves there was no protective ring around care homes at the start of the pandemic.

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2022

Court says UK's nursing home COVID-19 policy was illegal

A British court has ruled that the government’s decision to discharge untested patients from hospitals into nursing homes early in the coronavirus pandemic was illegal

The Independent UK · Apr 27, 2022