Cathy Gardner granted full hearing in case against government over hospital discharges without tests
A grieving daughter who lost her father to Covid-19 in an Oxfordshire care home has won the first stage of a high court challenge against the government’s policy of discharging hospital patients into care homes without tests.
Dr Cathy Gardner has been granted a full hearing in her case which alleges the government misled the public by claiming to have “thrown a protective ring” around care homes, and that policy failures “led to large numbers of unnecessary deaths and serious illnesses”. Gardner’s father, Michael Gibson, became infected and died in April after a patient with the virus was discharged from hospital into his home.
