Eljamel Inquiry expected to go ahead in September following delay

Patients and campaigners joined a demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh amid earlier calls for an inquiry (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

The first hearings of the inquiry into disgraced brain surgeon Sam Eljamel are expected to go ahead in September as planned, Lord Weir has said.

The chair of the Eljamel Inquiry said work by the Scottish Government was under way to resolve building safety issues that led to the first evidence hearings being delayed.