Meeting of the Parliament 19 March 2026 [Draft]
I repeat my point that that is the language of a desperate man. What I have said to the public—and I stand by it—is that the Queen Elizabeth university hospital is a safe hospital. Issues will emerge in our hospitals, but the crucial point is that those issues must be addressed timeously—and they are being addressed timeously in the Queen Elizabeth university hospital.
We have established an oversight group to provide greater public reassurance in an open and transparent fashion. Representatives of the families who have suffered unbearably as a consequence of the issues at the Queen Elizabeth university hospital are members of that oversight group, and that is essential for the issues of public transparency to be taken forward.
I make absolutely clear to the public the importance that I attach to public safety, and that is what I require of health boards, including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.