Care homes
Keep algorithms out of care homes
I manage a small, not-for-profit care home in Norfolk. We have tea rounds, hymn singing, hand-holding and staff who know…
Abolishing the care worker visa is a mistake
For years I worked as an NHS manager, seeing first-hand the consequences of Britain’s broken social care system spill over…
Hitting homes
The government’s social care reform plans are all wrong
Who cared?
Lockdown killed my mother – and thousands like her
Letters
Taking care Sir: I agree completely with Leo McKinstry that care for parents should be paid out of their estate…
Diary
The last patient I treated was 105 years old. She has lived through two world wars, a depression and at…
It’s shameful how we have treated our elderly
There’s a lot I don’t know about care home visits during this pandemic. I don’t know how straightforward it would…
Boris Johnson’s human shield
At a Conservative party conference fringe event last Sunday, Lord Bethell, a health minister, was asked where he thought Britain…
How Covid spread in Sweden’s care homes
Why did Covid prove so lethal in care homes? Between 2 March and 12 June, there were 66,112 deaths of…
Battle lines
The art of corona warfare
Letters
Hong Kong’s future Sir: So we have a moral duty to protect the people of Hong Kong and guide them…
Letters
Jobs for all Sir: Charles Bazlington championed Universal Basic Income in last week’s magazine (Letters, 9 May). It is welcome…
Letters
The case for small homes Sir: Your editorial rightly highlights what must be one of the government’s priorities once the…
Call that care?
As the NHS was preparing for the Covid onslaught, thousands of hospital patients were discharged to care homes in an…
The truth behind ‘do not resuscitate’ orders
Coronavirus is revealing many good things about our society: the number of people willing to volunteer to help tackle the outbreak…
Let’s refocus the Panama story on the bad stuff that really matters
There were moments last week when I was ready to give up journalism and retrain in a less unsavoury profession…
Touching the void
Scholarly filmgoers may recall a movement that sprouted from Danish soil called Dogme 95. It worked to a Spartan set…
