Member

I shall refer again to Covid-19 and those living in care homes who depended on NHS treatment and GP care, as well as their care home teams. Many of those teams went out of their way, beyond the course of duty, and with their managers working long hours and helping their patients, but the lives of those in care homes were made all the more precarious by the official approach of the block-booking of beds at care homes, facilitating the discharge of patients into those homes, many of whom were Covid positive. Moreover, and this is something I saw myself, NHS guidance to GPs at the time—we are talking about early 2020—but since removed from the website, was not to visit care homes. Bureaucracies have their own momentum. If we establish a state service, it may end up killing far more than we or they would like.