Having an underlying health condition raises the risk of being admitted to ICU or dying by almost 80 per cent, a study has found. The odds are even higher for those with two conditions, according to research of almost 1,600 hospital patients in China. Overall, 20 per cent of patients with any health condition ended … Read more
Care minister Helen Whately was blasted today for sniggering in a car crash TV interview as it was revealed a ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in nursing and old-people’s homes may have cost 4,000 lives. She was taken to task by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain as he grilled her over an exclusive report in the Daily … Read more
Matt Hancock vows to ramp up coronavirus testing in care homes to cover ALL staff and residents who have fallen ill The UK Health Secretary promised to test care home residents with symptoms Matt Hancock added that social care staff who need a test will now have access Only 505 care staff have been tested … Read more
A ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in care homes may have cost 4,000 lives, experts warned last night. They believe deaths are being hugely under-reported because of a lack of testing. GPs are also sometimes reluctant to write Covid-19 on death certificates and figures from care homes are not included in the official daily toll. The latest … Read more
Julie Ding (pictured, right, as a child with her mother Roberta and late sister Susan) fears she will not be able to be at her dying mother’s bedside because she was banned from visiting her nursing home Britain’s official coronavirus death toll is missing 10 per cent of victims because they died in care homes … Read more
Coronavirus outbreaks have been recorded in 92 care homes in the last 24 hours alone, the government revealed today as authorities were accused of ‘airbrushing out’ the deaths of hundreds of elderly victims. Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty said that almost one in seven (13.5 per cent) of the UK’s 11,300 care homes has … Read more
The majority of patients admitted to intensive care suffer long-term physical and mental health problems, scientists claim. Seven in ten ICU survivors end up with post intensive care syndrome, which can include fatigue, frailty, anxiety or difficulty holding a conversation. The findings, based on 1,300 people, are the first from an ongoing five-year study across … Read more
Daily death tolls are ‘airbrushing out’ hundreds of elderly people who are dying from coronavirus at care homes, furious bosses have warned today. Care England, the industry body, says around 1,000 residents could already have died from covid-19 – with even more ‘unrecorded’ deaths ‘swept under the carpet’. Matthew Reed, chief executive of charity Marie Curie, … Read more