Other care home managers should follow the lead of Jonathan Cunningham in allowing family visits, writes Heather Adams Jonathan Cunningham, the manager of Birkdale Park nursing home in Southport, taking resident Linda McNally for a ride in a rickshaw during the pandemic. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Jonathan Cunningham, the manager of Birkdale Park nursing home in Southport, taking resident Linda McNally for a ride in a rickshaw during the pandemic. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Letters Thu 4 Mar 2021 12.04 EST Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 12.19 EST What an inspiration Jonathan Cunningham is in facilitating family visits to the residents of his care home in Merseyside throughout the pandemic (‘People say, I didn’t know such homes existed’: a care home with courage, 28 February). Your report rightly points out that the isolation of our oldest and most vulnerable people has been one of the cruellest side effects of the pandemic, particularly as it didn’t work, with almost 30,000 people dying with Covid in care homes in England and Wales.