A nurse who quit over safety issues claims nursing homes were “bullied” into accepting patients who had tested positive for Covid.
Lesley Roberts said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon must respond to an English court ruling that it was unlawful to move patients from hospitals to care homes without them being Covid tested.
The 55-year-old said the actions of the Scottish Government were “unlawful, unreasonable, irrational and cost lives”. In a letter to Sturgeon, Lesley listed a catalogue of concerns she had tried to raise in the pandemic.The nurse was also the ward infection controller and a union rep with responsibility for health and safety.
She told Sturgeon how she had been contacted by a number of local care homes.Ms Roberts said: “One home in particular told me that they had been threatened by the local authority into accepting patients testing positive for the virus.