Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.Nearly 40 elderly people were discharged from hospital into West Lothian care homes without being tested for Covid-19, local Conservative leader Damian Timson has claimed.He has asked for details on the spread of Covid-19 in local care homes through a Freedom of Information request.“I have been informed that 38 elderly patients were discharged from hospitals to care homes in West Lothian.
I am waiting to see what my FoI comes back with,” Councillor Timson said.NHS Lothian has, so far, not revealed the numbers discharged from hospitals into care homes at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.Councillor Timson, leader of West Lothian Council.