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Scotland's Health Secretary to appear before MPs over Covid-19 care home crisis

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Health Secretary is to appear before MPs in a session on the Covid-19 outbreak. Jeane Freeman and national clinical director Jason Leitch are expected to face questions on the impact of the virus in care homes from the Scottish Affairs Committee.

West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Tory MP Andrew Bowie described the situation in Scotland's care homes during the crisis as "the single biggest failure of devolution", echoing a report from think tank Common Weal in May.

Statistics published by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) on Wednesday showed 47% of the 4,000 suspected deaths from Covid-19 occurred in care homes, the most of any setting.Mr Bowie said: "This is the first opportunity that Scottish MPs have had since the beginning of the.

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