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Delays to Covid-only care home plan could strand patients, warn England health chiefs

Dozens of councils miss deadline to nominate ‘hot homes’ for people discharged with virus

Covid patients could be left to languish in hospital and block NHS beds amid delays in setting up “hot” care homes dedicated to receiving them, health chiefs have warned.

A plan to reduce care home coronavirus outbreaks by setting up “hot homes” to receive infected people discharged from hospital is running late after dozens of councils missed a government deadline to nominate locations.

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