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Care home boss who told staff their positive Covid tests were negative is CLEARED to return to nursing after seven residents died during pandemic

Holmesley Care Home in Sidford, Devon, where a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found former manager Joanne Burchell told staff their positive lateral flow results were negative.
Holmesley Care Home in Sidford, Devon, where a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found former manager Joanne Burchell told staff their positive lateral flow results were negative.
Roy Gilliam (left), Susan Skinner (second left), Ronald Bampfylde (second right) and Stanislawa Koch (right), four of the seven residents who died of Covid at Holmesley Care Home in 2021, after manager Joanne Burchell…
Roy Gilliam (left), Susan Skinner (second left), Ronald Bampfylde (second right) and Stanislawa Koch (right), four of the seven residents who died of Covid at Holmesley Care Home in 2021, after manager Joanne Burchell…

Joanne Burchell, the former manager of Holmesley Care Home in Sidford, Devon, where seven residents aged 70 to 102 died of Covid in 2021, has been cleared to return to nursing under a 12-month conditions of practice order. A Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found she told staff their positive lateral flow results were negative, let infected staff work and binned a Public Health England message asking if more staff were needed, saying 'we do not need their help'.

Police arrested Burchell and nurse Christos Provistallis, but prosecutors saw no realistic prospect of conviction.

Provistallis allegedly refused to wear a face mask at the home, claiming 'Covid was a conspiracy'.

'A licence for people to do exactly the same again,' said Wladek Koch, son of victim Stanislawa Koch.

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