Hospitals may have not adhered to rules by sending patients tested positive for coronavirus back to their care homes without informing their managers about the virus.
The CQC or Care Quality Commission was told that some hospitals returned individuals despite knowing or suspecting they were infected.
Tragically, the patients triggered outbreaks in care homes, claiming lives of other residents. The care home staff would have not known they had coronavirus and, so, they did not wear sufficient protective clothing or take infection control measures.
The CQC is investigating multiple cases after it was informed by the managers of care homes that hospitals discharged patients without telling them those patients had the disease.
According to the chief inspector of the adult social care, Kate Terroni, they have heard of some cases where this had occurred and resulted in infections spanning to other residents.
The CQC enforces a range of regulations that England’s health, adult social services must comply with.
Breaking some of these regulations is a criminal offence, as well as the watchdog, may bring prosecutions. It is also investigating whether the residents of care homes have died due to non-coronavirus conditions because of lack of visits from the GPs.
According to the latest figures from ONS (Office for National Statistics), the care homes’ current death rate is 4x higher than the 5-year average and only one-third are directly associated with the virus.
The warnings of the watchdog came after the U.K.’s PM Boris Johnson admitted he regretted the condition in care homes, which, as per the experts, have become the latest epicenter of coronavirus.
The latest ONS figures show an increase of 36% deaths in care homes in a week as the deaths in the hospitals have begun to fall. Until now, 5,890 COVID-19 deaths have been registered in the care homes in Wales and England, including 2,794 in a week.
However, this number could be wrong because GPs do not record COVID-19 on death certificates until the residents have been tested.
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