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Jenny Harries

Dr Jenny Harries OBE

Dr Jenny Harries OBE is Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Social Care

Care home visits: safely reuniting families

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Woman visiting relative in care home, both wearing masks

"This last year has been incredibly challenging. The top priorities have been to save lives, protect the most vulnerable people in our society and safeguard the NHS but it has meant our contact with family and friends has been significantly limited - something that many of us, myself included, have found difficult.

"Older care home residents are among those groups identified as at greatest  risk, so we have taken a very cautious and clinically led approach to social contact in these settings." Dr Jenny Harries OBE, our Deputy Chief Medical Officer, explains more about the approach.