30-08-2020 17:33 via theguardian.com

Care home data secrecy puts profits before lives | Letters

The suppression of information about Covid-19 deaths in individual homes shows the care sector should never be run for commercial interests, writes Prof Alan Walker. Plus letters from Dr Mike Sheaff, Graham Murphy and Les Bright While the death rates of individual care homes are obviously not sufficient to provide a full assessment, as the Care Quality Commission says, they are nonetheless a vital indicator of safety, especially while Covid-19 rages (Data on Covid care home deaths kept secret &l
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