Glasgow super hospital site manager felt it was unsafe in 2018, inquiry told

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Glasgow super hospital site manager felt it was unsafe in 2018, inquiry told
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Phyllis Urquhart, a compliance manager at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, joined the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) campus in 2017, two years after it opened.

A site manager at a superhospital described it as "non-compliant" and said she had concerns over water safety due to lack of staff, the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry heard.

She said there was a "significant turnover of staff" and she believed insufficient training was provided. The inquiry heard an audit was missed in 2019 and Ms Urquhart urged for it to be completed but this never happened. Ms Urquhart said she was "very, very disappointed" at the lack of staff in the plant rooms, and it was difficult to obtain records, either electronically or on paper, and described the site as "a jigsaw".

She said it was difficult to obtain records, and said: "You would maybe be going in looking for specific records, planned preventative maintenance tasks, records as to alterations carried out to pipework.

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