Care Forum Wales

High rate of false-positive Covid-19 test results causes growing alarm

Call for care homes to be given top priority amid “totally unacceptable” testing shambles

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Relaxation of rules doesn’t give “automatic right” to indoor care home visits

“Cautious” welcome for indoor care home visits

Extra £22.7 million is “temporary sticking plaster”

Powys care home owner calls for urgent inquiry into ‘scandalously’ low fees

Call for public inquiry after testing failures turned care homes into ‘coronavirus warzones’

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Accepting hospital patients into care homes led to doubling of Covid-19 deaths

Care home’s bills rocket by £7,000 a week

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Reveal number of care home deaths in Wales, Health Minister urged