Matt Hancock was grilled by disability groups today for not challenging the claim that people dying in care homes were “near the end regardless”.
In messages from 4 April 2020 shown to the inquiry, Hancock’s media adviser Jamie Njoku-Goodwin asked him about a “push on testing in care homes” and whether there should be “some sort of focused effort on testing”.
Njoku-Goodwin wrote: “I know it’s complex and the people dying in care homes are often people who were near the end regardless, but I worry that if a load of people in care start dying, there will be front pages demanding why we weren't testing people in care homes. Do we need to get ahead of this now?”
