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image captionThe Mental Welfare Commission has found cases where there was no legal authority for patients being moved.
Legal concerns have been raised over the movement of hospital patients into care homes in Scotland at the height of the Covid pandemic.
The Mental Welfare Commission studied a sample of discharges when someone did not have the capacity to decide for themselves.
They found some cases where there was no legal authority for the move.
The commission also said it had found endemic examples of poor practice.
Last month Public Health Scotland said it cannot rule out a link between hospital discharges and outbreaks in care homes, with nearly a third of homes experiencing an outbreak.
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