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Statement from the incident manegement team 
regarding the 15 care home deaths reported 
this morning they say:

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"we'd like to assure all concened that control 
measures have been put in place working jointly 
with the care home,

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including limiting the movement of staff 
and residents to reduce transmission." Will 
you be ensuring that such measurements are 
in place,

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for care homes across Wales. And why is that 
is the response rather than the standard 
already?

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Well it is the standard already Rob, isn't 
it, it's what we've agreed with the sector 
that they must mimize the movement of staff

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between diffrent locations that the use of 
agency staff must be controlled in the same 
way And that visting arrangements at care 
homes

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have to be closely aligned with the nature 
of the population, so I don't think it is 
the matter of, you know, the approach that 
we have

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aggreed with the sector needing to be ammended, 
it is the delivery of the approach. It is 
making sure that it is being properly observed 
in

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care homes. Care homes, as you know, the 
vast majority of them in Wales are not run 
by local authorities, they are run

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by private individuals and there are a very 
large number of different people involved 
in that. What we have to do is to make sure 
that the things that

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we have aggreed with the sector are being 
delivered on the ground. And the IMT the 
local incident managment team alogside

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Dembyshire County Council and the Health 
board have been helping at this care home, 
to make sure that all the things that need 
to be

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in place are properly in place.