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Hospitals making a clean start

Health check: A new inspection regime will form the backbone of moves to ensure improved standards on wards, writes Helen Puttick.

From his vantage point in a hospital bed, Andrew Reilly has been conducting his own cleanliness audit. The 70-year-old patient was rushed into the Western General in Edinburgh two weeks ago and received emergency surgery for a colon blockage caused by cancer.