The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, which has been looking at the planning, design, construction and maintenance of hospitals, is hearing final submissions before publishing a report later this year.<\/p>\n
It was prompted by concern about patient safety following a series of infections and several deaths, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main<\/a>.<\/p>\n The inquiry will hear closing statements from the families later on Thursday.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, the chair of the inquiry, Lord Brodie, asked why the health board had changed its position after alleging unprofessionalism and malevolence on the part of the medics who raised concerns.<\/p>\n The health board’s lawyer, Peter Gray, acknowledged that several criticisms made about the whistleblowers were neither helpful nor fair. <\/p>\n He said the people running the hospital should not be criticised as the failure to listen to the whistleblowers was an organisational failure, adding that changes have since been made.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for First Minister John Swinney and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to be investigated over failures at the hospital.<\/a> <\/p>\n NHSGGC has already been named by prosecutors in a corporate homicide probe which is looking into the deaths of Milly Main, two other children and a 73-year-old woman at the hospital campus.<\/p>\n