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Hospital inquiry families call for Glasgow health board bosses to 'face a reckoning'
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde acknowledged likely links between hospital water and deadly infections after years of denials, with families demanding accountability for systemic failures.
- This week, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde admitted in written submissions to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry that it is `more likely than not` contaminated water caused infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus, where tests in December 2014 found microbes.
- Pressure to meet the 2015 opening date drove NHSGGC to open the hospital too early, and project managers and construction teams faced design and construction failings in water and ventilation systems.
- The scandal has involved several deaths and a legal probe into NHSGGC after two children, including 10-year-old Milly Main, died at the £840m hospital campus.
- Families and opposition politicians responded by demanding a reckoning for GGCH leadership and investigations into ministers, while the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry will publish a report later this year.
- Whistleblowers maintain they were mistreated and remain unconvinced as NHSGGC apologises and implements remediation programmes while senior managers on the infection prevention and control team stay, amid ongoing public scrutiny via the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry.
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Glasgow hospital patient Molly Cuddihy's family suffer 'indescribable distress'
Scottish Hospitals Inquiry told how NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's changed position on infection causes has caused 'indescribable distress' to family of Molly Cuddihy, who died before hearing the health board's admission.
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'We were lied to, demeaned and smeared': Hospital inquiry families call for Glasgow health board bosses to 'face a reckoning'
Families of patients treated at Scotland's superhospital which is at the centre of infection concerns are calling for health board bosses to "face a reckoning" amid claims they were "lied to", "demeaned and smeared".
·United Kingdom
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