Health minister Lord Bethell was asked at a Conservative Party conference fringe event where the UK would rank in the world in terms of its response to the pandemic. "For a health minister to suggest we will look back with pride and compare it to a time of national celebration is tasteless and offensive. He said: “We’ve done a huge amount to protect those in social care. But there have been times when we’ve struggled to even have the list of all the 15,000 social care sites in the UK. (Image: Getty)“And having a highly dispersed, complex and multifarious social care system has benefits but when it’s come to an epidemic like this it has also shown there are some weaknesses.

Source: Daily Mirror October 04, 2020 16:33 UTC