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Leaked documents reveal coronavirus patients to be treated in care home in plan branded 'madness'

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Plans to move patients with coronavirus into a care home have been uncovered by the Sunday Mail.Leaked documents reveal that at least one nursing home in Scotland will take in non-residential new patients as well as returning ones.The move, which has been branded “madness” by health professionals, union leaders and politicians, comes less than a week after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed that 25 per cent of all deaths linked to Covid-19 were in care homes.Staff at Newcarron Court care home in Falkirk were told it had introduced an emergency contingency plan in response to uncontrolled admissions of individuals “highly likely” to be carrying the killer illness.The home’s owner, Advinia Health Care, has confirmed the Falkirk facility,

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