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Reading refuses to send COVID-19 patients to care homes

Reading Council is to defy a Government order to provide care home places for Covid-19 positive patients.

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By Martin Ford | 28 October 2020

Reading Council is to defy a Government order to provide care home places for Covid-19 positive patients.

All local authorities in England have been instructed to identify ‘designated facilities' to which coronavirus patients can be discharged from hospital.

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