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Patients are “justified” in feeling the government failed to protect them over the hospital infections scandal , former health secretary Jeane Freeman has said. ‌

Ms Freeman also said that with hindsight she would not have allowed the flagship Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow to have opened, given reports about problems with its water system. ‌

The former SNP minister , who held the health portfolio between 2018 and 2021, gave evidence to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry on Friday. ‌

The inquiry has been examining the design and construction of the QEUH in Glasgow and the Royal Hospital for Children, which are on the same campus. It was launched in the wake of deaths linked to infections, including that of 10-year-old Milly Main.

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