The inquiry is currently investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.
A process to sanitise taps was not introduced for three years at a hospital where concerns about the water system later emerged, an inquiry has heard.
Ian Powrie, sector estates manager for south Glasgow at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde from September 2015 to January 2017 and then deputy general manager for estates services, told the inquiry “systemic” problems with the water system were discovered in 2018. "I looked into that in partnership with Horne to say this is an edict that has come out and we need to apply and they said you can't do that on these taps, the regulator performs three different tasks, if you take them away you defeat the function of the tap.
He was asked to set up a meeting with the manufacturers, Health Protection Scotland and Health Facilities Scotland. He told the inquiry his bosses decided on the option of retaining the taps and putting in a management process. He went on: "In 2015 you proposed a solution, a means of sanitising which would have involved removal the tap taking them to a workshop and run through water at 70C. That did not happen for a number of reasons.
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