The incident in Aberdeenshire in August 2020 claimed three lives. Events
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry also heard NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s delayed acceptance of issues had made the inquiry’s work more difficult. Science
Families accuse health board of ‘deceit and cowardice’ after years-long battle to prove contaminated water was linkedAll Molly Cuddihy wanted was recognition of what she had gone through. That was what she told the Scottish hospitals inquiry in 2021, where she described the “frightening” fits and rigors she had suffered after contracting a bacterial infection at Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth university hospital while undergoing chemotherapy. “I was made sicker by the environment,” the 19-year-old said in her evidence.Molly had been 15 and revising for her National 5 exams when she was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. She was treated at the Royal hospital for children and the adjacent QEUH, which are both part of a six-year public inquiry that reached its final stages and heard devastating new admissions this week. Continue reading... Science
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is hearing closing submissions. Politics
Just days after hospital bosses admitted a link between infections and contaminated water, the hospitals inquiry had heard that Scotland’s super-hospital opened too early. Events
Dan Burton, 54, died following a paragliding accident in Sutherland in 2021. Events
Amber Eames, who was involved in a previous project with ‘human swan’ Sacha Dench, will give evidence next week. Events
