Hospitals accused of lying to care homes in rush to free up beds at start of the pandemic
25,000 patients were discharged into care homes in a four-week period last spring, blamed in part for seeding coronavirus at those locations
17 March 2021 • 8:30pm
Until April 15 2020, hospitals were not required to test patients before discharging them to care homes
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Hospitals have been accused of lying to care homes about the presence of Covid-19 on their wards as they rushed to free up beds at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
A total of 25,000 hospital patients were discharged into care homes in a four-week period in March and April last year, which has been blamed in part for seeding coronavirus in those locations.
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It happened on Friday, February 19. There were no further deaths at Airedale General Hospital and Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. The total death toll at hospitals in the Bradford district now stands at 810 - 560 at BRI, 248 at Airedale and two at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. NHS England announced 53 patients at hospitals in the North East and Yorkshire who tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) have died. Of those, 33 were reported at hospitals in Yorkshire and the Humber. There were 13 in West Yorkshire - 10 at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Pontefract Hospital, Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, Dewsbury and District Hospital and community health services in Wakefield, two at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and one at BRI.