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Evening Standard
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Neil Pooran

Patients ‘justified’ to feel government failed them, Freeman tells inquiry

Jeane Freeman discussed the hospital infections scandal (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

Patients are “justified” in feeling the government failed to protect them over the hospital infections scandal, former health secretary Jeane Freeman has said.

Ms Freeman also said that with hindsight she would not have allowed the flagship Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow to have opened, given reports about problems with its water system.

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