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Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith says moving healthcare challenges to the care sector “wasn't necessarily the wisest course of action” by the previous Conservative government, when asked about the lessons learnt from the pandemic on the day the sixth Covid-19 inquiry report is published. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I hope there are a lot of lessons. I haven't seen the report, but certainly the idea of discharging
00:06large numbers of people into care homes from the NHS. I personally feel for too long that care
00:13homes, the care sector, has been seen as a second-class citizen. Protecting the NHS is all very
00:18well, but simply exporting its challenges to the care sector at a time of a global pandemic
00:23looked, even at the time, to be something that wasn't necessarily the wisest course of action.

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