{"id":428232,"date":"2025-09-16T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428232\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T06:44:11","slug":"scottish-hospitals-inquiry-to-quiz-nhs-bosses-amidst-infection-claim-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/428232\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Hospitals Inquiry to quiz NHS bosses amidst infection claim row"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the key decision-makers will be questioned about their involvement in the saga in the coming weeks as the inquiry enters its next phase.<\/p>\n

The people expected to appear include Robert Calderwood, chief operating officer of the health board between 2006 and 2009; his successor Jane Grant, who was also later its chief executive before retiring last year; and John Brown, chairman of NHS GGC between 2015 and 2023.<\/p>\n

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman – who called the hospitals inquiry – will also appear.<\/p>\n

It is expected this phase of the inquiry will look at why the Glasgow hospital hospital was “not built right”<\/a>, as some witnesses have claimed, and examine what was done to address safety concerns before and after it opened.<\/p>\n

Whistleblowing<\/a> will also be one of the key issues covered.<\/p>\n

One of the senior doctors who raised infection control concerns at the hospital previously told the inquiry that chief executive Ms Grant “urged” her not to blow the whistle.<\/p>\n

Dr Penelope Redding, a former clinical director at NHS GGC, claimed there was a profound culture of fear and bullying” at the board which put more people off speaking out.<\/p>\n

Following this evidence, a spokesperson for NHS GGC said: “A number of staff being mentioned during these hearings will also provide evidence and will endeavour to support the Inquiry to fully establish the facts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of the key decision-makers will be questioned about their involvement in the saga in the coming weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115212626458702407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}