{"id":486730,"date":"2026-03-21T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:28:09","slug":"mould-alert-over-damp-wall-panels-at-new-aberdeen-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/486730\/","title":{"rendered":"Mould alert over damp wall panels at new Aberdeen hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problems with mould, water systems and ventilation have previously affected Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus. <\/p>\n

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. <\/a><\/p>\n

NHS Grampian has previously suggested that delays and overspends in the projects were due to having to apply lessons from the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry<\/a>, which has been looking at water and ventilation issues in Glasgow and Edinburgh. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“Implementing stage 2 HAI-Scribe at the design stage would have reduced overall project costs by preventing redesign and remedial works,” it found. <\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Problems with mould, water systems and ventilation have previously affected Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus. The NHS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-486730","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\/486730","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=486730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}