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Daily Record
Daily Record
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Stuart Gillespie

Inspection raises concerns over Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary patients sharing rooms

Concerns have been raised that hospital patients were sharing rooms designed for just a single bed.

Inspectors made an unannounced visit to DGRI – where all the wards were created for single-patient occupancy.

However, the team from Healthcare Improvement Scotland discovered in March that “several wards had increased the number of patients they cared for at any one time” by creating additional beds for “double occupancy”.

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