{"id":69526,"date":"2019-12-20T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=69526"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:09:10","slug":"children-and-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/children-and-young-people\/69526\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland\u2019s auditor calls for answers on delayed hospital project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audit-scotland.gov.uk\/about-us\/auditor-general\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Auditor General for Scotland<\/a> says the delay to the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People remain unanswered<\/h2>\n<p>The Auditor General for Scotland says reviews to date have been unable to establish a number of issues. These issues include why specifications in the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People&#8217;s 2012 tender papers were inconsistent with national ventilation guidelines for critical care areas.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been an error that led to confusion and why a series of opportunities to spot the error, which caused the delay to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/timeline-royal-hospital-children\/63058\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 opening of the hospital<\/a> were missed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audit-scotland.gov.uk\/report\/the-201819-audit-of-nhs-lothian-delay-to-the-opening-of-the-royal-hospital-for-children-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The report<\/a> sets out the facts as they are known and draws on the reviews already carried out by <a href=\"https:\/\/home.kpmg\/uk\/en\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KPMG<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nhsnss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NHS National Services Scotland<\/a>, as well as NHS Lothian&#8217;s annual audit report.<\/p>\n<h3>It comes ahead of a public inquiry into the hospital project and raises broader issues for consideration, including:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The clarity and application of the national ventilation guidelines, and how they were managed;<\/li>\n<li>The effectiveness of the oversight and scrutiny of the project;<\/li>\n<li>The role of all the parties involved, including project company IHSL&#8217;s construction arm, Brookfield Multiplex, who also built the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Caroline Gardner, Auditor General for Scotland, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that the checks and balances around the construction of the new children&#8217;s hospital didn&#8217;t work, and the public inquiry may want to consider why that happened after similar issues had emerged around the building of schools in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would also be beneficial to understand the role played by all the parties involved, and to explore why the issues that emerged at Glasgow&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth hospital didn\u2019t prompt greater scrutiny in Edinburgh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Public inquiry<\/h3>\n<p>On 4 July 2019, the cabinet secretary for health and sport announced that the opening of the newly built NHS Lothian\u00a0Royal Hospital for Children and Young People\u00a0was to be postponed due to issues identified with the air ventilation system at the Hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Auditor General for Scotland says the delay to the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People remain unanswered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,276,579,996],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-infrastructure","10":"tag-nhs"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Scotland\u2019s auditor calls for answers on delayed hospital project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Auditor General for Scotland says the delay to the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People remain unanswered\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/children-and-young-people\/69526\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scotland\u2019s auditor calls for answers on delayed hospital project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Auditor General for Scotland says the delay to the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People remain unanswered\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/children-and-young-people\/69526\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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