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These included buying up care home beds for hospital patients to free up NHS capacity.
This was long before it was required to test patients on discharge.
However it won’t disclose how many care home beds it signed off on.
And to my knowledge the plans are not published.
Documents make clear the ‘key priority’ was hospital capacity.
10 of the 14 care homes there agreed to take hospital patients.
50 beds were bought. The £2m cost was approved by Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman herself.
The guidance states clearly the priority was ‘maximising hospital capacity.’
Charlie speaks highly of his NHS colleagues and his own staff for containing the virus and becoming COVID-free again.
46% of all COVID19 deaths in Scotland have been in care homes.
Around 1,600 care home residents in Scotland have died.
None of them could tell us.
Tragically more than 11,000 care home residents in the UK have now died.