New infection prevention and control guidance means that nursing homes now may not need to wait for an outbreak of Covid-19 to be declared over before they can reopen to new admissions
Nursing homes with Covid-19 outbreaks will be able to admit new patients faster to ease the trolley crisis in hospitals. Around half of nursing homes had multiple residents testing positive with Covid-19 since the start of the year, and were unable to take in new residents until 28 days after their last Covid-19 case was detected.
This made it very difficult for hospitals to discharge older patients whose treatment had concluded, which is a contributory factor...