학술논문

R (Gardner and Harris) v Secretary of State for Health and Social care and Others: scant regard for Covid-19 risk to care homes
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
Med. L. Rev. 2022, 30(4), 734-743
Subject
Care homes
Coronavirus
Health policy
Hospital discharges
Irrationality
Judicial review
Pandemics
Policy statements
Right to life
Health
Administrative law
Social welfare
Language
English
ISSN
0967-0742
Abstract
Comments on R. (on the application of Gardner) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (DC) that government policy decisions in March and April 2020, which allowed elderly patients to be discharged from hospital and admitted to care homes, were unlawful as they failed to take account of the known risk of the asymptomatic transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and considers the implications for the forthcoming COVID-19 public inquiry.