The government has been accused of treating care homes as an "afterhought" after a report found up to 25,000 hospital patients were discharged at the peak of the coronavirus outbreak without being tested.
The damning report from the National Audit Office also revealed that the government ignored warnings to stockpile gowns and visors as part of PPE supplies.
Boris Johnson is now facing renewed questions over care homes after the findings of Whitehall's spending watchdog on Friday.
Conservative former health secretary Jeremy Hunt joined Labour MPs in criticising the Government, saying it was "extraordinary that no one appeared to consider the clinical risk to care homes".