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Sarah Ward

NHS board did not view infections as ‘unintended and unexpected’, inquiry told

The inquiry is examining infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

A psychologist who worked with the families of child cancer patients at a scandal-hit superhospital has told an inquiry the NHS board “didn’t perceive healthcare-acquired infections as unintended and unexpected”.

Professor Craig White, associate directorate for the chief operating officer at NHS Scotland and associate director of Healthcare Quality and Improvement, worked on the Scottish Government’s duty of candour healthcare legislation regarding “unexpected or unintended incidents” in 2018.

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