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People’s Covid Inquiry | Session 4: Disability and social care in the pandemic
7th April 2021 - 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbK_8P-rRgm5VVsUebTKbw
Over 140,000 people have now died in the UK of Covid-19. Shockingly, six in ten people who have died have been disabled, and more than 35,000 people have died in care homes. Social care has been stretched to breaking point, and heavy care responsibilities have fallen upon families and loved ones, invariably falling most heavily on women.
Was this scale of death, long-term illness and distress inevitable? Why were Covid-positive patients discharged into care homes on three separate occasions? Was the UK social care sector well-equipped to meet the pandemic, and could nothing more have been done to enable social care workers to protect both themselves and those depending on their care?
The Panel
Michael Mansfield QC (chair), Professor Neena Modi, Dr. Tolullah Oni, Dr. Jacky Davis, Lorna Hackett Barrister (Counsel to the Inquiry)
Witnesses
- Dr Rachel Clarke (Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine)
- Ellen Clifford (Disabled People Against the Cuts)
- Professor Martin McKee (Independent SAGE)
- Carol Thompson (Social Care Worker and North West Unison activist)
Use the link below to register. You can also use it to register for all the future sessions of the People’s Covid Inquiry:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbK_8P-rRgm5VVsUebTKbw
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