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NHS chiefs tight-lipped over QEUH report cost that rubbished patient infection claims

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NHS chiefs have refused to disclose how much public money was spent on a controversial report about a scandal-hit hospital.

The document ordered by the NHS Central Legal Office claimed there was “little to no evidence” to link the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH)’s environment to a string of rare infections in patients.

It also suggested patients, mainly children with cancer, could have brought their infections into the hospital themselve. That’s despite a 2021 independent review stating that a third of patients’ infections and the deaths of two children were likely to have been caused - at least in part - by the hospital environment.

But now asked by the cost of it under Freedom of Information laws, the NHS body has refused - claiming it is confidential information.

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