Problems with mould, water systems and ventilation have previously affected Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus.
The NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde health board is currently planning to rebuild an adult bone marrow transplant ward after water ingress and mould were found.
NHS Grampian has previously suggested that delays and overspends in the projects were due to having to apply lessons from the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, which has been looking at water and ventilation issues in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
At First Minister’s Questions on Thursday, John Swinney said the delays were because the same “cautionary approach taken in Edinburgh” was now being taken in Aberdeen.
However, a recent independent investigation into a whistleblowing complaint found that many of the mistakes in Aberdeen were due to failures to follow a long- established system for checking that hospital designs comply with infection control guidelines.
The investigation concluded that public money was wasted and patient safety was “negatively impacted” because a checklist-based system known as HAI-Scribe was not used properly in the early stages of the project.
“Implementing stage 2 HAI-Scribe at the design stage would have reduced overall project costs by preventing redesign and remedial works,” it found.
The report also found that concerns were raised by the infection control team but these “were consistently downplayed, and there remain individuals who continue to minimise infection prevention risks.”