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The new Sick Kids hospital at Little France had running costs of over £7m in 2020/21
The previous year the new building had running costs of £3.5m even though the building was standing empty.
The figures were obtained under Freedom of Information legislation by Lothian Tory MSP Miles Briggs, who said it was a waste of taxpayers’ money having to run two hospitals at the same time.
He said: “These are huge chunks of money which the health board has been forced to spend on running two hospitals because of the delay with the new building.
“People understand that – patients need to have that reliable health service available – but this is a situation which should have been avoided.”
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Huge queues ‘right back to the car park’ were seen at the Lowland Hall vaccination centre at the Royal Highland Centre on Monday as people faced delays of over an hour.
NHS Lothian responded by apologising for the wait people experienced, saying that it was due to an administrative error and was resolved by the afternoon.
But well-places sources within the Scottish Government – which replies to press queries about NHS Scotland – revealed that it was responsible for the blunder.
It operates fourteen territorial NHS boards across Scotland, seven special non-geographic health boards and NHS Health Scotland
The insider said: “The explanation is quite simple – too many letters were sent out in error. Whether this is a human error or one generated by a glitch in a computerised system has yet to be confirmed.
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