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More than 50,000 care home deaths

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Vincent
Published date20 March 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The inquiry was told there had been more than 50,000 deaths related to the virus in care homes across the UK in the pandemic

The first preliminary hearing for the inquiry's investigation into the care sector - module six - was being held in London yesterday.

Public hearings where evidence is heard are not expected for this module until spring 2025.

At yesterday's hearing Jacqueline Carey KC, counsel to the inquiry, said the pandemic had had a "devastating impact" on those living and working in the adult social care sector.

Listing official figures recorded for care home residents across the four nations in slightly varying time periods between 2020 and 2022, she said there were more than 50,000 deaths related to Covid-19.

Ms Carey said: "The decisions that may have contributed to those figures will doubtless be examined in module six. But it is not just a question of statistics and data.

"Each number represents the loss of a loved one, often as we will hear in circumstances where they were not accompanied by family and friends saying goodbye at bedsides, but they died surrounded by PPE (personal protective equipment) and by the...

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