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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nick Forbes

Patients left ‘anxious’ by Government silence on Eljamel Inquiry delay – lawyer

Evidential hearings in an inquiry into disgraced brain surgeon Sam Eljamel have been delayed (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Wire)

Patients of disgraced brain surgeon Sam Eljamel were left “anxious and suspicious” by the Scottish Government’s silence on why an inquiry into his actions has been delayed, a lawyer has said.

The first evidential hearings in the Eljamel Inquiry were scheduled to start in April, but were delayed due to building safety concerns at its venue in Waverley Gate, Edinburgh.

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