Publications or Proceedings? by Julia Jones
Today is a publication day. Today, Golden Duck UK Ltd (that’s Francis and I with the typesetting assistance of our son Bertie) publishes The Holding Pen: 14 days enforced isolation for people living in care homes. It’s only a booklet: 40 A5 pages swiftly printed by Woodbridge Bettaprint. I sent it in advance to the Helen Whately, the Care Minister. I wasn't seeking a review. I want her to change the current Government policy on isolation in care homes. This requires that anyone who has spent a night outside their care home must be isolated for the following fortnight. It doesn’t matter whether that night has been spent in their family home (so important to younger people who are living in care homes because of their significant disabilities) or in hospital (under observation perhaps, following a fall) or whether that night was their last in their own home before illness or age brings an end to independent living. All of these places apparently pose such a s...