Health and Safety expert claims NHS Ayrshire & Arran "covered-up" coronavirus outbreak in Ayr Hospital
A health tsar claims NHS bosses “covered-up” a Covid-19 outbreak at Ayr Hospital.Thirty-six staff and patients linked to the same ward all fell ill with the deadly bug.But it can now be revealed that the Station 6 incident was not reported to the Health and Safety Executive.And Roger Livermore, the man who developed the HSE’s UK policy on infection control in hospitals, reckons that is worthy of prosecution.He said: “This is a major breach of the law.“By HSE procedures the outbreak constituted a major incident.“Both the outbreak and the failure to report require HSE immediately to investigate the outbreak, the non-reporting, and infection control across the rest of the board.“Given that the board covered-up a major incident, it will meet