Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson, who died aged 88 in a care home in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom in April

This morning.

Via BBC:

UK Government policies on discharging patients from hospital to care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic have been ruled unlawful by the High Court.

The ruling comes after two women took the government to court, saying Covid patients were discharged from hospitals back to care homes without testing.

Dr Cathy Gardner and Fay Harris, whose fathers died, said it caused a “shocking death toll” of residents.

The women claimed key policies of discharging patients from hospitals into care homes were implemented with no testing and no suitable isolation arrangements in the homes.

The High Court said the policies failed to take into account the risk to elderly and vulnerable residents from non-symptomatic transmission of the virus.

…In their ruling, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Garnham concluded that, despite there being “growing awareness” of the risk of asymptomatic transmission throughout March 2020, there was no evidence that then Health Secretary Matt Hancock addressed the issue of the risk to care home residents of such transmission.

Covid: Discharging hospital patients to care homes ‘unlawful’ (BBC)

Meanwhile…

Kevin Higgins writes:

This is what happened here with at least a thousand needless deaths. This has huge implications for Dept of Health and HSE…

Previously: Left to Die: Nursing Home Timeline

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17 thoughts on “‘Unlawful’

  1. Duncan Wheeler

    Call it for what it is, manslaughter by neglect, allegedly. I would like to read David Langwallner’s take on this for the Irish victims of this heartless kneejerk reaction. The disposible elderly, sure they’re going soon anyway.

    1. SOQ

      Was it by neglect or was it deliberate? I find it hard to believe that this happened in such a repeated pattern across many countries, and yet nobody stopped to ask why.

      1. paul

        Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

        – Hanlon’s Razor.

  2. Kin

    And it happened here
    What made it worse is they moved (the disgusting term of bed blockers) untested from hospitals into nursing homes untested and such signing the death warrants to these residents.
    And the HSE have no excuse as they deal with health they are not ignorant imbeciles ,and as such it could be called premeditated murder
    As they would of been aware of the fact you do not put a healthy person into a rabid environment.
    Let’s face it would you do it with Ebola anthrax TB
    But they did and on top of that effectively locked away these old people from any human touch or contact with their loved ones
    I remember as any victim was buried no funeral but we had golf gate and numerous breaches by every government department including those gobs celebrating in the department of foreign affairs

    1. SOQ

      And yet the doctor who has been shouting this from the rooftops from the very beginning- Dr. Marcus de Brun- has been witch hunted by the HSE powers that be, and on a regular basis even on Broadsheet, has had his motivations questioned and character smeared.

      Anyone with any semblance of wit should have known that such people who were prepared to risk everything, were doing so for righteous and decent reasons. He. and others, will be proven right.

  3. stephen moran

    But Matt Hancock -a man whose integrity is beyond reproach told the British people that

    “everybody going from hospital into social care will be tested for coronavirus & isolated whilst the result comes through to protect those most in need”.

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    1. anti bot

      But, according to the frequent commentators on here, its only a flu and has been up blown by the health authorities. Surely the defence in this case can use the commentators well educated evidence. strange that that same person is claiming no innocent people are killed in Urkania.

      1. SOQ

        That people have needlessly lost their lives doesn’t matter at all as long as you can get your stupid little digs in eh?

        Pathetic.

        1. anti bot

          What pathetic digs. Have you not claimed 24/7 that Covid is only a flu and that people don’t die. have you not claimed that the Putin invasion of Ukraine is justified?

          Seriously who is the pathetic one? A Trump quanon supporter online 24/7 or someone who calls out lies….Someone with sexist comments and multiple aliases?

          1. anti bot

            Ah go on, explain why Covid is only a flu and nobody died, explain why its acceptable to invade another country… You can’t answer. on the Internet 24/7 but are afraid or mentally incapable of answering to simple questions. Maybe go look on Instagram for a link?

          2. SOQ

            Some old people died- sure what odds as long as you can get your one-upmanship jibes in eh? That is really all that matters inside your vacuous head now isn’t it?

            It wouldn’t surprise me if you were one of the characters who spent your time bitchin at Marcus either.

          3. anti bot

            You’re dead right. I was one of the people on here calling you out over your rantings re covid. yet I’m pathetic and vacuous? I’ve also called you out over the invasion of Ukraine. You have never dared to rely except to mention Nazi thus nazi that on every comment under your aliases. I reckon you’re the pathetic one. You’ll moan about Urkanian immigration. why don’t you go back to you’re own country and post on their websites?

  4. Verbatim

    There was never any doubt that when Covid-19 hit it was dire for the elderly, this was a known fact from the very beginning. I don’t recall anyone referring to it then, as just the flu, most adults know that the flu is pretty serious for the elderly.
    We knew about the transfer of the elderly from hospital to homes where they subsequently died with, or from Covid, and saw the horrors of family not being allowed to visit or attend their funerals RIP. It seemed to me at the time that it was pure panic on the side of the medical profession, it was shocking and in my view, most people off Broadsheet board didn’t stand up for the elderly, they kept their heads down, as fear was running rampant through the population, and as long as it wasn’t happening to their family they sighed in relief. On BS it was discussed…and a lot of fools denigrated posters who were pointing out the truths.

    You can hold your head up high SOQ you, along with a few others tried to keep the truth in the forefront. You certainly have my esteem! Anti-bot is an arrogant fool, sorry to say.

    1. anti bot

      Good man. Another nick name caller. Why are you always calling people names when you are called out for the lies you spout online? Why can’t you answer any question or engage in any debate. Why do you question every commentators nationality when you are not even Irish yourself?

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