aah, thanks for the info Woofy x
Probably not relevant to this thread, but I remember quite a lot of large houses were being bought in various ''affluent'' areas of Glasgow and being converted to Care Homes (all private and for profit obviously) in the 1970's. No doubt along with many other cities and towns across the UK, wonder how many have gone bust or been taken over - anyhoo, just thinking out loud.
Any nasties surely are going to run rampant in a close setting, colds/flu/chicken pox virus and covid certainly is.
With regard to the 85% of care homes being private, I think it was Mr Hancock at an early briefing mentioned something about the thousands (possibly hundreds) of different organisations which represent or have care homes as members.
About time this was reduced, surely, but it won't stop bad nursing homes operating no doubt.