The inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic has heard from politicians, civil servants, experts and bereaved ...

The High Court ruled in 2022 that government policies on discharging hospital patients into care homes at the start of the ...

Appearing before the Covid Inquiry, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock lashed out at local authorities and Public Health ...

Discharging patients from hospitals to care homes in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic was “the least-worst decision” at the time, former health secretary Matt Hancock has said.

Hancock is scheduled to face questions on Wednesday as the inquiry takes evidence on the pandemic's impact on the care sector ...

Module six of the inquiry is focused on the effect the pandemic had on both the publicly and privately funded adult social care sector across the UK.

In 2023, appearing for a separate module of the inquiry, Mr Hancock admitted the so-called protective ring he said had been put around care homes early in the pandemic was not an unbroken one, and ...