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Hannah Rodger & Chiara Pollock

NHS Glasgow bosses confess to paying private investigators to spy on relatives of dead patients

Glasgow health board bosses have confessed to paying private investigators to spy on the families of dead patients.

NHSGGC admitted to using an external firm to conduct Big Brother-style monitoring on critical patients and relatives at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH).

Previously revealed by the Sunday Mail, NHSGGC were found to have employed a scheme called "social listening" to check online posts by individuals they keep on a list, including people with questions as to what's gone wrong at the £842million Glasgow super-hospital.

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