Edinburgh sick kids

'Astonishing': Health board 'had haphazard approach' to safety at delayed sick kids

It is "remarkable and inexcusable" that a design flaw which delayed the opening of the new sick kids' hospital in Edinburgh by 20 months went undetected for years, lawyers have said. In their final submission to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry (SHI), the legal team representing parents and families affected by problems at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People (RHCYP) said it was "bewildering" that potentially dangerous errors in the ventilation system were only flagged in an eleventh hour inspection days before the facility was due to open in 2019.