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Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Available reporting and public documents show that decisions about the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus sit within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) governance and were scrutinis...
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry has repeatedly heard staff describe sewage smells, leaks and proximity to Shieldhall wastewater treatment works near the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus; witn...
The reporting and inquiry material identifies as a named bacterium linked to fatal and serious infections at the in Glasgow, and describes clusters of “rare” and multiple gram‑negative organisms recov...
has accepted that faults in the water system "probably" caused serious infections in paediatric cancer patients, and reporting identifies as a named organism implicated in at least one fatal case () ....
A claim that construction workers “deliberately sabotaged” the by blocking drainpipes and causing sewage to enter wards was made at the by a former estates manager, but publicly available reporting an...
There is no evidence in the reporting provided that at the ; coverage to date documents design and construction failings, contaminated wastewater systems and a long-running , but does not allege inten...
has publicly accepted that, faults in the water system at the and adjoining probably caused bloodstream infections among paediatric haemato‑oncology patients between 2016 and 2018, a concession made i...
The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry heard closing submissions in which NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) shifted its position and accepted that, on the balance of probabilities, some patient infection...
No sourced record in the provided reporting shows Mohammad Sarwar MP making public comments about the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital at Shieldhall; instead the quoted and documented criticisms come from...
The documentary trail offered in the reporting indicates the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital outline business case (OBC) was assessed and approved internally by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde in Marc...
The choice to locate Glasgow’s new major acute hospital on the Shieldhall/Southern General site — rather than the Cowglen option — emerged from a long programme of appraisal and consultation that bega...
The choice to locate Glasgow’s new south-side acute hospital on the Southern General/South Glasgow (Shieldhall) site — instead of the Cowglen option — was made through the Modernising Glasgow’s Acute ...
Available sources do not state that Susan Deacon personally made the final decision about the new Glasgow hospital site; contemporary coverage and records discuss decisions by NHS bodies, ministers an...
There was not originally two separate public inquiries announced; the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry set up in 2019/2020 has from the start covered both the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in G...
As of the reporting in these sources, Scotland is hosting a major single, statutory public probe known as the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry that investigates safety and construction issues at the Queen E...
Search results do not locate any record of a “Dr Joyce Alexander” serving as an Associate Specialist in haematology at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow in the 1980s. Available sources mention ...