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Matt Hancock defends moving hospital patients to care home during the COVID pandemic. We’re going to read into this more from the Guardian, you guys. Let’s go. [Music] Good morning, good afternoon, good evening wherever you are in the world. This is reg article from the Guardian with the headline that Matt Hancock has defended is moving the hospital patients to the care homes during the the COVID pandemic. The ex- health secretary tells the inquiry policy uh to free up hospital beds in the early days of the pandemic were the least worst decision. Guys, while you’re here, make sure you hit the like button and share across social media so I was notified of this video. Was it the least worst decision? Was it a case of we had no choice? The thing is is that it’s hard to know for sure. Um I don’t trust this man one bit. This man is actually a slime ball and um and it’s responsible for many many deaths. And he quotes here saying it was the least worst decision. Was it the least worst decision when we knew that so many people who went into care homes spread their infection because they didn’t they weren’t tested to other patients in care homes which led to people dying because of COVID. Was it really the worst decision, the least worst decision? I I have a hard time believing that. I despise this man. I despise what this man done and he’s never apologized for his role as as health secretary for his part because he has to take ownership responsibility and he has not done it. And the only reason he got kicked out of his role, was because he was caught having an affair, which is the most egregious thing of all, um, how this man got to be health secretary. I have no idea, but he is anything but a good person. Um, and I don’t buy this story at all that he it was the least worst decision. So, discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes during COVID pandemic was the least worst decision. The former health secretary Matt Hancock had told the public inquiry. In his testimony to the UK COVID 19 inquiry on Wednesday, Hancock defended the decision, which was later ruled illegal in a high court judgment to move hospital patients into care home during the early weeks of the pandemic to free up space. Quote, “Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was still available at the time that would have saved more lives.” He said, quote, “I can’t see a decision that would have been less bad. None of the options were good. It was the least worst decision that I could have taken at the time. While I wish there had been a better option, I still can’t find one. The likelihood of things have been worse if people are staying in the hospital was very high. We honestly don’t know that, guys. Um, we honestly just don’t know. Nella Brookke, a solicitor representing more than 7,000 people from COVID 19 degree families for Justice UK, said Hancock’s words were an insult to the memory of each and every person who died. quote, “He knew at the time that many care homes did not have the ability to isolate the people who would be discharged from hospital and that COVID was airborne.” She said, “It’s frankly ridiculous and insulting that he says that they tried to throw a protective ring around care homes when his department’s policies caused COVID to spread like wildfire among society’s most vulnerable loved ones.” Hancock said the discharge policy was formerly a government decision, but that it was driven by the then H NHS chief executive Simon Stevens. He also said that while he had not taken the decision himself, he took responsibility for it. Brook said Mr. Hancock’s claimed the decision to discharge people into the care homes was driven by Simon Stevens, the chief executive of the NHS. Yet the inquiry is not calling him. We call for this decision to be urgently reviewed. Hanok was given evidence as part of his sixth module of the inquiry focusing specifically on the care sector. So, so let me get this right. So, you’re blaming Simon Stevens for it mainly. So, he’s basically saying like I was the health secretary, but I didn’t make the ultimate call. It was Simon Stevens who made the ultimate call. I don’t remember this. I don’t remember him saying this, but in the past, guys, earlier this week, it was heard that a senior civil servant said there had been a generational slaughter within care homes in written evidence of the inquiry. Almost 46,000 care home residents died with COVID in England and Wales between March 2020 and January 2022, many of them in the early weeks of the pandemic. The decision to rapidly discharge hospital patients to care homes in order to free up beds when testing and isolation facilities are not yet widely available has been strongly criticized for causing rapid spread of the disease in care homes. In 2022, the high court said the policy not to isolate discharge hospital patients in the first week of the pandemic without testing was irrational. On Tuesday, a care home owner and manager gave evidence said that she had refused to allow untested hospital patients into her nursing home and was told she would be reported to the care inspector for bed blocking. Hancock said the isolation for discharged patients had not been clinically recommended at the time, but in hindsight, it should have been. When questioned about where there had been enough staff to care for the discharge patients, amid evidence of widespread shortages of carers, Hancock said, “We knew what people would do when they needed what they needed to do. He has also been heavily criticized for his claims that a protective ring had not been placed around care homes prevent previously admitting to the inquiry that it was not an unbroken circle. The care sector module of the inquiry is suspected to run till the end of July that is this month for reference. It’s been a while since I’ve covered an update on the CO 19 inquiry and um it despises it. It really just I despise Matt Hancock. I really despise this man. But I don’t know if you can fully put everything on him. It is a multitude of failures here. I want to know who made the ultimate call. He’s claiming it was it was um he’s claiming it was uh Simon. It was Simon who pushed for it. But I want to know who was the sole decision maker. Simon Stevens, sorry. I want to know who was the sole decision maker. And if it was him, he needs to take ownership responsibility for it. I mean, he says he takes responsibility. Is he sorry that he couldn’t have saved more lives? Is he sorry that he wish he could have done more? I don’t think he is. personally, you know, he he’s there because he has to be there, not because he wants to be there, he should be held to account like Boris Johnson for what they did. But we know that won’t happen and um to claim it was the least worst decision, knowing that people weren’t being tested, knowing that it would be spreading, knew that that was a risk. should have kept them in the hospital until there was adequate should have kept those people in the hospital until adequate amounts of testing in the care sector at least. If that had been done, maybe more lives would have been saved, maybe. But we honestly just don’t know for sure. What do you guys honestly think? What do you guys make of Matt Hancock’s excuses, if you want to put it that way? Or was he right? Was he justified in what he did? Maybe some of you have a difference of opinions. Let me know your thoughts and more on this down in the comments section below. 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Ex-health secretary tells inquiry policy to free up hospital beds in early days of pandemic was ‘least worst decision’
Discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes during the Covid pandemic was the “least worst decision”, the former health secretary Matt Hancock has told a public inquiry. In his testimony to the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Wednesday, Hancock defended the decision – which was later ruled illegal in a high court judgment – to move hospital patients into care homes during the early weeks of the pandemic to free up space. “Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was available at the time that would have saved more lives,” he said. “I still can’t see a decision that would have been less bad. None of the options were good. It was the least worst decision that could have been taken at the time. While I wish there had been a better option, I still can’t find one.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/02/matt-hancock-covid-inquiry-care-homes-hospital-discharge-policy
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