Letter: 22,000 care home deaths demand action

This is the same Government that sacrificed the elderly population in the community and care homes through lack of PPE, had no policy of track and trace, and emptied beds in hospitals and demanded they be accommodated in homes without testing for the virus.

More than 22000 deaths have been recorded, and yet we had the tissue of lies that a ring of protection was surrounding care homes to protect the residents and care staff from an early stage.

The Government is preparing its defence by trying to shift blame on to everyone else be it hospital or care staff or the medical or scientific advice it receives.

Its abject failure to save lives and to sacrifice elderly people means we have the highest death rate in Europe, only exceeded by Brazil and USA in the rest of the world.

Peterborough Pensioners Association policy to end the scandal is for Social Care to be financed like the NHS through general taxation, so that the population receives cradle to the grave care free at the point of need.

We do not require another enquiry to tell us that integration is needed only to then kick it into the long grass and proceed to do nothing.

The deaths of 22.000 people in care homes demand action now.

P.Brooks

Chair

Peterborough Pensioners Association