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Let's Talk About Care
This podcast highlights issues related to social care. We find out the funny, shocking and inspiring stories about care and hear from ministers, care professionals, celebrities and people giving and receiving care.
Let's Talk About Care
Ep 9. Care home owner Anita Astle talks about loss of 13 residents from COVID-19 and how ‘love’ from people kept her going
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Anita Astle, care home owner
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Episode 9
Host Angeline Albert talks to Anita Astle, the managing director of Wren Hall Nursing Home in Nottingham, where 13 residents died of Covid-19. She also fell ill with Covid-19.
The care home owner talks candidly about government failures including PPE shortages, no testing for residents who died at her care home and "poor and conflicting" guidance.
She says it was the community that gave her the help and "morale boost" that kept her and her staff going.