Matt Hancock sentenced for 'misleading' and 'insulting' account of Covid nursing home outbreak

The former health secretary has claimed the virus was 'mainly' brought into care homes by staff during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. pandemic in a story that 'bears no resemblance to the facts'

Matt Hancock was also criticized by Vaccine Taskforce Czar Kate Bingham (

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Jungle MP Matt Hancock has been accused of 'insulting' care home staff with a 'misleading' account of the crisis in his coronavirus diaries.

The former health secretary has come under fire for his memoir on Covid-19 in which he accused homes of being too slow to 'grasp the fact' they needed to test residents.

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He also criticized them for “unscrupulous” allowing employees to work with Covid.

"The main takeaway is that the virus is primarily introduced by staff, not older people who have been discharged from hospital," he wrote on July 16, 2020.

The government decided at the start of the epidemic to send potentially infectious Covid patients from hospitals to care homes without prior testing.

This was blamed for the large number of Covid deaths in healthcare facilities during the first wave of the pandemic.

The former health secretary made these claims in his Pandemic Diaries (

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But the former health secretary claimed that only 1.2% of Covid cases in care homes were caused by patients transferred from hospital.

"The vast majority of infections came from the wider community, primarily by staff," Hancock said.

National Care Association President Nadra Ahmed said: "