A Covid-19 home test cost around £195: https://www.better2know.co.uk/shop/products/home-testing-kits/covid-19-test
Private care homes for the elderly in the UK typically charge more than £800 per person per week: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/care/paying-for-care/paying-for-a-care-home/
Most UK care home staff are paid only the minimum wage or in some cases even less: https://www.homecare.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1605174/Most-home-care-workers-are-paid-less-than-minimum-wage
The owners of private care homes in the UK, such as HC-One are often based in the USA or in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, pay no UK taxes and yet can pay investors, dividends of around £45 million per year: https://www.wikipolitiks.org/wiki/HC-One_Ltd
HC-One, the owner of Home Farm in Skye and Highgate in Uddingston was valued in 2018 at £1 billion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC-One
Scottish Government critic and multiple care home owner, in Scotland and across the UK, Robert Kilgour is a significant donor to the Scottish Conservative Party: https://wingsoverscotland.com/justices-torn-blindfold/#comments
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
4 words
Send them the BILL
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As Boris can’t or wont answer the unexplained 10,000 deaths in care homes in England maybe someone should ask Carlaw seeing he is so interested in care homes in Scotland.
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The parent company of HC-One Ltd is FC Skyfall Upper Midco Ltd, which has 3 directors with addresses in the USA.
The other director of FC Skyfall Upper Midco, who is a UK resident, is also a director of HC-One.
He is a director of 30 companies, 12 of which have “FC Skyfall” in the company name.
Many of them have an address in the Cayman Islands.
If you search Companies House for “FC Skyfall”, you find 23 companies, 8 of which are in the Cayman Islands.
I make no comment on the above, just grrrrr …
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The search facility on the Companies House web site is a fascinating source of information.
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk
I have previously searched for ‘Renaissance Care’, the care home provider associated with BBC Scotland’s go to source Mr Robert Kilgour, the founder of the anti-independence organisation ‘Scottish Business UK’.
It revealed a host of companies involving Mr Kilgour and the name ‘Renaissance’, including at least seven with the following style of name: RENAISSANCE CARE (NO 7) LIMITED. And Mr Kilgour’s business interests extend to directorships on what I estimate to be at least c. 15 companies, including others associated with the care home sector.
A similar search for the UK registered care home company ‘HC -One’ on the Companies House site reveals the business distributed across at least six companies with HC-One in their name. From a further dig, and looking at directors in common and similar locations of registered office, I suspect the networked corporate structure may be even more complex.
I too leave this information – verifiable by an easy search using Companies House – without further comment.
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We’d need the forensic skills of someone like Ian Fraser of “Shredded: Inside RBS” fame to dig into this.
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It should also be remembered, and pointed out at every available opportunity, that back in April 2020 the SG reached a deal with Councils so that Social Care Workers are now paid the Living Wage. Guess private care home owners did not follow suit.
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Could your report be sent to the BBC and STV reporters? I cannot believe they are not aware of these details . And yet they choose not to mention them ,!
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I’ve tried many times. Have a go yourself and let me know how they react.
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Trap them
Use a Trojan horse of confusing difficult to understand set of official figs.
See how eagerly they react then keep feeding them but sneakily inc.data that clearly shows Scotland well ahead in key areas
EG. Scotland has a higher no.of cases / million of population of 2533 no
Whilst England has 2484
Despite Scotland less dense Population
And that London a huge international hub
Such should lead them into your spiders web
Then once on the hook
Strike with Cases to Deaths Ratio
The higher the % clearly demonstrates who in ALL areas are handling the pandemic to better end result
Scotland ratio 13.7 %
Keep a accurate time line and record of all communication
England ration 21.4 %
The above data to calc.this ratio is as on
UK.Gov corona daily tracker web site
This means Scotland is doing 56% better than England in matters of outcome of actual case nos.turning into death
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Latest weekly Covid-19 deaths in care homes:-
ONS (England & Wales) down 13% to 2423 (41/million)
NRS (Scotland) down 24% to 238 (44/million).
So England & Wales has 10.2 times as many as Scotland, and the deaths in Scotland are reducing nearly twice as fast currently.
The ratio of populations is about 10.9 for comparison, but care home populations would be more relevant.
I can’t find care home populations, or number of care homes, but there is data for how many Nursing Homes (care home with nursing) there are in each country. There are about 510 in Scotland and 4,082 in England & Wales, a ratio of 8.0. So they had more deaths per nursing home (0.59) than we did (0.47) in that week.
Caveat:
ONS data is for week ending 1 May –
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending1may2020
NRS data is for week ending 10 May –
Click to access covid-deaths-report-week-19.pdf
Breaking news (well, a few hours ago) for England & Wales:
“Coronavirus: real care home death toll double official figure, study says” –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/coronavirus-real-care-home-death-toll-double-official-figure-study-says
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Apologies, I didn’t mean to post the whole NRS Report!
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“Only 8,310 of these were specifically linked to Covid-19 by the ONS – reflecting the declarations of care homes, rather than on death certificates…..
…… Data on deaths in care homes directly attributed to Covid-19 underestimate the impact of the pandemic on care home residents, as they do not take account of indirect mortality effects of the pandemic and/or because of problems with the identification of the disease as the cause of death,”
Covid-19 can present atypically in older people so is it possible that covid-related deaths are not all recorded as such? Doctors not verifying cause of death in the normal way might be resulting in under-recording? Will unexpected deaths be covid-tested at post mortem if not on cause of death? I hope there are robust measures to get accurate figures eventually.
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