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A row is brewing over delays to complete a multi-million pound mental health inpatient unit, designed to care for children aged 12 to 18 in Ayrshire. ‌

The £19m National Secure Adolescent Inpatient Service, known as Foxgrove, was initially due to be completed more than three and a half years ago. ‌

But the project, on the grounds of Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine, was pushed back after watchdog, NHS Scotland Assure, stepped in and put a block on the site being opened to patients. ‌

They were sent in to examine the quality of NHS new builds following the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital scandal in Glasgow.

As a result they asked for “quality issues identified in the build” to be “rectified” by the contractor.

And earlier this month the Scottish Governme

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