THE public inquiry into a deadly infection outbreak at a Scottish hospital is on hold after the chairman fell ill – almost three years after the probe began.
A hearing at which legal representatives were expected to answer questions about the outbreak of clostridium difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital in West Dunbartonshire and sum up was cancelled last month.
Inquiry chairman Lord MacLean, a retired Lockerbie trial judge, was unwell after surgery.
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