内容摘要：Council members have now approved plans to add nine more bedrooms - and create a 43-room hotel.

Council members have now approved plans to add nine more bedrooms - and create a 43-room hotel.

NHS Lothian apologised for the failures in its design brief highlighted in the report.It also said sorry to families let down at a time when they were "already worried and vulnerable".

Lord Brodie, who chaired the inquiry, said: "There is a group of young patients who are very seriously ill and spend a significant portion of their time, sometimes much of their lives, in hospital."The hospital becomes, for them, their second home."The impact of unclear or poor communication on the wellbeing of patients and their families during what may already be a very difficult, emotional, and uncertain period in their lives, is significant."

Lord Brodie also said NHS Lothian was too reliant on external technical advisors and the involvement of infection prevention specialists was not sufficient to identify problems.The report found that the health board "inadvertently" agreed to the wards not meeting safety standards with the potential to put patients at risk.

Evidence highlighted a number of missed opportunities to deal with the issues that delayed the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People

with the specifications for air flow in critical care rooms was not spotted for years."The people of Staffordshire have given us a clear mandate for serious change and we fully intend to deliver that," he added.

Councillor Martin Murray, who represents Cannock Chase, was elected as the group's deputy leader at the same meeting.Reform UK won 41% of the votes in Staffordshire having had no councillors on the authority prior to the recent election.

The Conservatives went from 53 seats to 10, while Labour lost four of its five councillors.The two remaining seats were won by the Green Party and the Stafford Borough Independents.