A huge thank you to Cathie for continuing to highlight this. She has been at the centre of this campaign and has done her mum proud. 

“In the end, for three precious months I was able to spend some time with mum, albeit still limited.

“In her last two weeks, we were finally granted the ‘essential status’ that allowed us to take a test and go in and out as often as we needed.

“My brother came from Manchester and played her guitar, she had communion from her priest, and my sister and I were both with her when she passed. It means a lot.

“More than 20,000 people have died in care homes since Covid began. Only one in five of those deaths involved Covid but they all faced months of isolation, often in their own rooms for weeks on end.