Bosses say nationwide testing to allow visits by Christmas unachievable without funding

Care homes have said the health secretary Matt Hancock’s promise of nationwide testing to allow visits by Christmas is unlikely to be achieved without urgent funding, adding that it is “distressing and dangerous to raise expectations without the policies in place to achieve this”.

Vic Rayner, the executive director of the National Care Forum, said care homes wanted to deliver visits but that efforts to make it possible across the country needed to start immediately rather than after a pilot programme that started this week.

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