In Scotland: https://www.careinspectorate.com/
In England: https://www.cqc.org.uk/
Some examples:
Chaston House in London:
‘People were not protected from the risk of infection and cross contamination.’
Invictus in Ryde:
‘Staff did not use equipment and control measures to protect patients, themselves and others from infection.’
Hands of Compassion Care in Chatham:
‘Good practice was not always followed, for example infection control needed to be improved.’
The Hawthorns in Wilmslow:
‘People were not always protected from the risk of infection. Some areas were not clean.’
‘Many staff, including those employed to undertake cleaning tasks had not completed any training in health and safety, infection control or the control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH).’
Kingswood Home in Worthing:
‘Systems for the prevention and control of infection were not effective.’
I could go on. Almost every care home for the elderly had infection control problems in a period in which the coronavirus outbreak had already begun.
This is not unusual. In the previous month, 96 English care homes had failed and again none in Scotland had:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Yes, but, BECAUSE they are in Scotland, they MUST be bad. That is the job of BBC Scotland to point it out, especially when they have no evidence, but have been ‘told’.
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John
Here is a link to the second in a series of discussions by people who know what they are talking about. There is also an excellent piece by James Kelly at Scot Pop wher James discusses some rubbish on herd immunity by Iain Macwhirter.
There is little doubt that the Scottish government signed upto the herd immunity barbarism.Unlike Mr Kelly I have heard nothing that persuades me that there will be a change of tack and by the SG nor the UK government. We will face cycles of covid 19 with large numbers of unnecessary deaths,particularly in care homes.
https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-whole-world-from-jacinda-ardern-to.html#comment-form
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Sam, many thanks for your link to The Covid Report 14 04 20 (and to the first one?). I’d failed to find the second report – I’ll now be able to send both links to friends and family.
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exile
The evidence of UK government incompetence is piling up. You might be interested in what’s behind this link.
https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/11/a-national-scandal-a-timeline-of-the-uk-governments-woeful-response-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/
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exile
I think this comment made in response to the blog by James Kelly might be of interest to you as well as having some practical purpose. I can’t readily believe that the Scottish government is unaware of the existence of such capacity.
Testing needs to be done as far as possible on a local basis for most speedy results and contact tracing and isolation. Local people need to be recruited and trained to do the job. The Scottish government may be doing this quietly but I doubt it.
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Forgot this.
“RolfeApril 15, 2020 at 8:27 PM
However, to my main point. I spent a lot of time in the final years of my career reporting out PCR results for a wide variety of livestock diseases and advising vets in practice on disease control. We had, and still have at the labs near Edinburgh, huge capacity for PCR testing, and another private lab almost next door has similar. To a large extent this was to service the campaign to eradicate a cattle disease called BVD from Scotland – an RNA virus like coronavirus. Thie operation is nearly complete and we were ramping up testing from England. To the best of my knowledge these PCR machines are just sitting there, as are others in universities and research institutes. The sheer capacity of the veterinary laboratory estate, set up to control animal disease, is considerable. These machines should have been re-purposed for coronavirus testing right from the start.”
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Thanks for these extra links Sam. I have them already, but your posts will let other readers know about them. Many thanks!
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