Jackie Baillie has welcomed the news that outgoing chair of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde John Brown will not continue as a government advisor on good governance.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde recently became the first public body in Scottish history to be named a suspect in a corporate homicide case following the tragic deaths of children at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Despite this unprecedented investigation, Humza Yousaf last week refused to confirm whether the scandal-hit health board’s outgoing Chair John Brown would be kept on as a government advisor on “good governance”.

However, in response to a letter from Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar, the First Minister confirmed that Mr Brown will not have a role in the new Governance Advisory Board.

The Scottish Labour Health Spokesperson and Dumbarton constituency MSP welcomed this news, but said it is not enough given the current Chief Executive of the Health Board, Jane Grant, has been in post throughout the scandal.

Jackie Baillie said: “It is frankly astonishing and highly insulting to the families bereaved in the Queen Elizabeth University scandal and others impacted, that the Health Board’s chair has been advising the Scottish Government on ‘good governance’.

“Removing John Brown from his advisory role is a welcome step but there needs to be more significant action. I am clear that the board’s entire leadership needs to go.

“The Chief Executive, Jane Grant, has been in post since before some of the young patients died and she has been paid over £1million in that time. This is astonishing remuneration for someone who has led an organisation that is now being investigated for corporate homicide.

“Alongside that, the senior health board team has gaslit grieving families, shut down and bullied NHS staff and called into question the results of an independent review in which the fatal infections in children were exposed.

“The SNP has empowered the leadership of this scandal-hit board throughout and the subsequent cover-up. This must end now.”