{"id":411240,"date":"2026-02-06T14:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:10:24","slug":"new-oversight-group-for-glasgow-hospital-linked-to-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411240\/","title":{"rendered":"New oversight group for Glasgow hospital linked to infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month, in its closing submission to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, NHSGGC for the first time admitted that some infections among child cancer patients were &#8220;on the balance of probabilities&#8221; caused by the hospital environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">COPFS is conducting a separate investigation into the deaths, which could result in the health board that manages the hospital being prosecuted for corporate homicide or under health and safety laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In four cases, including that of Milly Main, two unnamed children and 73-year-old Gail Armstrong, police submitted a &#8220;standard prosecution report&#8221; last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means they have gathered evidence which leads them to suspect a crime has been committed, and it is now up to COPFS to decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the three other cases, involving Andrew Slorance, Tony Dynes and Molly Cuddihy, evidence is still being gathered and police have not yet submitted a prosecution report .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, in its closing submission to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, NHSGGC for the first time admitted that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-411240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}