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A doctor whose father died after contracting Covid-19 is taking the UK government to court over their death trap care homes.
Dr Cathy Gardner claimed the government
failed to protect care home residents during the pandemic.
Her case will be brought to London s High Court later this year, she told
The National, after a Covid-related delay.
However, his announcement came after the government attempted to have Dr Gardner s legal action dismissed.
Lawyers acting for NHS England told the court the public interest would not be served by diverting NHS England’s attention and resources from the management of the ongoing response to the Covid-19 crisis to expensive and time-consuming high court litigation .
THERE’S a very strange anomaly in Scottish democracy which needs addressed. The Alba Party was humiliated at the polls, and thoroughly rejected by voters. Yet the party has two sitting MPs and a clutch of councillors in office, who defected from the SNP. Alba’s cheerleaders told us ‘a storm was coming’. It didn’t even rain. Alba failed to register even 2% in the election – yet because of defections it has representatives in the House of Commons and Scottish councils. The two MPs are Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey. The case around Hanvey is a little more complicated than MacAskill, who’s a straightforward defector from the SNP to Alba.
Carers are the forgotten heroes of the pandemic. The Tories clapped but didn’t even offer carers the same 1 per cent pay rise as the NHS. Britain requires the kind of radical change seen after the Second World War