Care homes: what went wrong?
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🗓️ 20 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Care home deaths in England and Wales now account for forty percent of all deaths from coronavirus - and one result has been a political row. Why have things gone wrong for our most vulnerable citizens and the people who care for them?
Guests:
Greg Hurst, social affairs editor at The Times.
Irene Owen, a 91-year-old resident of Devonshire Court in Leicestershire.
Sonja Bell, daughter of a elderly resident at The Heights in Buckinghamshire.
Kimberly Ross, care assistant at Connaught Court in York.
Karen Casey, activity co-ordinator at Zetland Court in Bournemouth.
Additional support: Michael Clarke, Times Video Team.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Additional music: Chris Zabriskie (licenced under Creative Commons).
Clips: BBC, TalkRadio, TalkSport.
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| 0:00.0 | One aspect of the pandemic in the UK has become deeply controversial, the death toll in our care homes. |
| 0:09.3 | I think there's a feeling that things must change radically in how the sector is viewed in government. |
| 0:16.1 | Why do things seem to have gone so badly wrong for our most vulnerable citizens and the people |
| 0:21.5 | who care for them. |
| 0:24.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm David Aronovich. |
| 0:30.0 | Today, Care Homes. What went wrong? Does the Prime Minister accept that the government was too slow to protect people in care homes? |
| 0:51.6 | The Prime Minister has been asked to account for 10,000 unexplained |
| 0:55.5 | deaths in care homes. What we've seen is a concerted action plan to tackle what |
| 1:01.6 | is unquestionably being an appalling epidemic in Care Homes. |
| 1:06.5 | Care Home deaths in England and Wales now account for 40% of all deaths from coronavirus. And one result has been a political row. |
| 1:14.8 | There should be some investigation. We ceded the virus into our care home. |
| 1:20.2 | So that we now have more tests in this country than any other European |
| 1:24.8 | country and also it looks as if you're scrambling to catch up in care |
| 1:28.8 | homes you're offering tests for everybody in care homes now but what's the use of a single test? |
| 1:34.0 | If I'm working a care home... Hello, Greg Hearst, the time's social affairs correspondent has been investigating the situation in care homes across the country since the second week of lockdown. |
| 1:56.2 | In the beginning all he had was his phone. |
| 1:58.9 | Hold on and then I'll just put Irene on two seconds. |
| 2:02.0 | Hello. Hello I mean my name is Greg and I'm a reporter. |
| 2:07.2 | Oh yes. What do I do feel? What is your surname, I mean? |
| 2:11.4 | Oh in. Oh in lovely and how old are you, Irene? Ohin. |
| 2:13.0 | And how old are you, Irene? |
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