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| Glasgow health board to take legal action over hospital contractor | Glasgow health board to take legal action over hospital contractor |
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| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has instructed legal action against a contractor involved in the construction of its biggest hospital. | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has instructed legal action against a contractor involved in the construction of its biggest hospital. |
| Brookfield Multiplex was responsible for the design and construction of the £575m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) complex in Glasgow. | Brookfield Multiplex was responsible for the design and construction of the £575m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) complex in Glasgow. |
| There have been problems at the campus since it opened in 2015. | |
| Lawyers have been instructed to raise court proceedings against the contractor "as a matter of urgency". | Lawyers have been instructed to raise court proceedings against the contractor "as a matter of urgency". |
| Public inquiry planned | Public inquiry planned |
| MacRoberts LLP are acting on behalf of the health board, according to official papers. | |
| A public inquiry is expected to look at how the design, handover and maintenance contributed to ineffective infection control at the QEUH complex. | |
| It will also cover the new children's hospital in Edinburgh, which also involved Brookfield Multiplex. | It will also cover the new children's hospital in Edinburgh, which also involved Brookfield Multiplex. |
| This was due to open in 2017, but will now not be ready until next autumn at the earliest after serious problems with the ventilation system were uncovered. | This was due to open in 2017, but will now not be ready until next autumn at the earliest after serious problems with the ventilation system were uncovered. |
| In brief: The trials of Scotland's super hospital | |
| In 2017, 10-year-old Milly Main was recovering from leukaemia at the Royal Hospital for Children. | |
| But her Hickman line, a catheter used to administer drugs, became infected. Milly went into toxic shock and died days later. | |
| Her family say they were kept in the dark about a potential link to contaminated water problems at the hospital. | |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde insisted it was impossible to determine the source of Milly's infection because there was no requirement to test the water supply at the time. | |
| At the end of last month, the board was placed in "special measures". | |
| Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said stage four of the NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework was necessary to implement because of the issuse over infection prevention and control. | |
| The move in effect means an oversight board is in place, chaired by chief nursing officer Prof Fiona McQueen. | |
| Both NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Ms Freeman have apologised to the parents of two children who died at the hospital. | |
| Three-year-old Mason Djemat, who was being treated for a rare genetic disease, died on 9 August 2017. Milly died three weeks later while recovering from leukaemia treatment. | |
| Both were treated on a ward affected by water contamination at the Royal Hospital for Children. |