YOUR front-page lead article today ("Half of checked care homes ‘weak’ on infection control", The Herald, February 25), complied diligently with the recent narrative of Public Health Scotland, which is to deflect attention from the unrealistic expectations currently being placed on care home staff throughout the country. The article correctly points out that a fortnightly report on the outcome of care home checks is currently being presented to the Holyrood Parliament. However, these inspections are very keen to make points that seem to blame care home staff for most weaknesses they inevitably find in busy care home settings. As a care home worker before and throughout the pandemic, I am qualified to respond to these issues. Since last March I have been expected to carry out duties of a dispensing pharmacist, be a substitute family member to the residents I am responsible for, as well as carrying out enhanced deep cleaning. In this context, for Public Health Scotland to say staff are not ensuring care home residents are "not supported to keep active or pass their time in a meaningful way" is insulting to the professionalism that I and my colleagues carry out on a daily basis.