REVEALED: The Scottish Governnent directly oversaw and signed off the purchase of care home beds for patients transferred from hospitals across Scotland, before mandatory testing.

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Local areas across Scotland were asked to submit ‘mobilisation plans’ to Scottish Government

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.

The Scottish Governnent approved all the plans.

However it won’t disclose how many care home beds it signed off on.

And to my knowledge the plans are not published.

Inverclyde has published some information.

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.