Media Coverage 21 – 23 April 2020

Care Home Deaths:

National Press BBC - Care home deaths - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire- 52369898

The Guardian - Northern Ireland: NHS staff sent to care homes to help fight Covid-19 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/northern-ireland-nhs-staff-sent-to-care- homes-to-help-fight-covid-19

Daily Mail – Carers move into tents - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- 8249097/Care-home-staff-TENTS-no-one-policy-shield-residents-coronavirus.html

Daily Mail - Care home deaths - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8248779/Single- care-home-11-Isle-Mans-15-coronavirus-deaths-licence-suspended.html

Forgotten victims - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8247071/Stories-reveal- plight-vulnerable-people-stranded-homes.html

The Mirror – Care home deaths - https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nurse-quits- care-home-job-21891537 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/care-home-residents-hospitalised-coronavirus- 21900456

Citywire – Care home deaths - https://citywire.co.uk/investment-trust-insider/news/care- home-trust-keeps-dividend-on-target-as-covid-infects-under-5-of-residents/a1349343

Sector Press Community Care – Weekly care home deaths double - https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2020/04/21/weekly-care-home-deaths-double- fortnight-minority-rise-covid-19/

Regional Press Labour List – care home deaths - https://labourlist.org/2020/04/1000-covid-19-care-homes- deaths-show-shambolic-response-says-unison/

Bristol Cable – care home deaths - https://thebristolcable.org/2020/04/we-need-better- data-and-more-testing-to-avoid-deaths-in-our-care-homes/

Northampton Chronicle – care home deaths - https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/health/coronavirus/-authorities- refuse-give-details-coronavirus-scale-2545738

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Southwark News – care home deaths - https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/more- than-a-thousand-diagnosed-with-covid-19-in-southwark/

Surrey Live – care home deaths - https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/- 18114633

Gazette Live – care home deaths - https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside- news/coronavirus-been-confirmed-fifth-care-18121149

Cornwall Live – care home deaths - https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/uk-world- news/coronavirus-latest-more-17000-being-4058797

Socialist Worker – care home deaths - https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/49934/Tories+lies+hide+scale+of+deaths+in+care+homes

Doncaster Free Press – care home deaths - https://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/health/coronavirus/no-new-coronavirus-deaths- reported-doncaster-four-days-row-2543808

Socialist Party – Care home deaths - https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/30655/21- 04-2020/care-homes-coronavirus-scandal-blood-on-their-hands

The Weekly Source – Ring of steel - https://www.theweeklysource.com.au/uk-aged-care- operators-call-for-ring-of-steel-as-deaths-in-aged-care-homes-are-estimated-to-top-4000/

Enfield Independent – care home deaths - https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/18393854.warning-coronavirus-outbreaks- enfield-care-homes/

Journal Review – care home deaths - https://www.journalreview.com/stories/the-latest- more-than-1-million-european-cases-of-virus,118562

Financial impact:

National Press BBC – Care Homes could close without financial help - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk- england-tees-52403121

The Telegraph – care homes on brink of bankruptcy - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/20/care-homes-brink-bankruptcy-spiralling- ppe-costs/

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COVID-19 testing:

National Press Daily Mail - Care home testing - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8247041/Just- one-four-care-home-workers-fear-coronavirus-tested.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8249275/UKs-testing-farce-Drive-centres- swabbing-four-people-day.html

Sector Press Inside Housing – Care regulator books coronavirus tests - https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/care-regulator-books-coronavirus-tests-for- nearly-12500-social-care-staff-66126

Regional Press About Manchester – Only 25% of eligible care home staff tested - https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/only-25-of-eligible-care-home-staff-tested/

Pharmaceutical Journal – Care Home pharmacists redeployed - https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/news/care-home- pharmacists-redeployed-despite-covid-19-palliative-care- increase/20207923.article?firstPass=false

WessexFM – COVID-19 testing - https://www.wessexfm.com/news/national/3088668/coronavirus-why-isnt-the-uk-using- its-full-testing-capacity/

Other The Canary – Fake nurses propaganda - https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/04/21/fake-nurses-propaganda-tweets-distract- from-further-government-coronavirus-shambles/

Radio Interviews

BBC Today Programme BBC News BBC News Channel BBC Radio 4 You and Yours Sky News

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Channel 5 News BBC Radio Lancashire Euronews

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