27-08-2020 18:00 via theguardian.com

Falling care home demand since Covid poses threat to UK

Financial effect of pandemic may seriously erode ability to look after the most vulnerableData on Covid care home deaths kept secret ‘to protect commercial interests’Fuller care homes with fewer staff had more Covid cases, study findsThere is a graph circulating in the care home industry that should send chills down the spine of the health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock. It predicts, under a worst-case scenario, a plunge in the demand for care homes by the end of 2021 that w
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