Helen Whyley, Director RCN Wales, said: “This report and in particular the quotes from ‘Care Home Voices: A snapshot of life in care homes in Wales during Covid-19’ are so powerful.
Whilst highlighting the challenges that care homes have faced over the last few months, it is good to see, from this report, care home staff being praised by the people who matter the most, the residents and their family members.
We echo the Older People’s Commissioner call to ensure care home residents and workers are supported and protected, as we did when we wrote to the First Minister and Health Minister earlier in the pandemic calling for COVID-19 testing for care home staff.
We support the call to the Welsh Government to publish a specific action plan for care homes to allow constructive and responsible scrutiny of the action already underway or planned, and to provide reassurance to people living and working in care homes.”
