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20 patients ‘discharged illegally’ to care homes
Report says decisions made in early days of pandemic were without legal authority
HOSPITAL discharges of some patients to care homes in Scotland during the early days of the pandemic were unlawful, a new report claimed yesterday.
A report by the Mental Welfare Commission into decision-making for people in hospitals who lack capacity studied a sample of all discharges to care homes from March to May 2020.
The new report, Authority To Discharge, studied the detail of 457 moves — about 10 per cent of those reported by Public Health Scotland — and found 20 of those to have been unlawful.
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