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Heartbroken dad of young Scots doctor who died in horror crash slams hospital's working hours 'cover up'

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dad has hit out at government secrecy after crucial parts of a report into doctors’ working hours were blanked out. Brian Connelly's daughter Lauren, a junior doctor, died after a car crash in 2011 while driving home from Inverclyde Royal Hospital where she had been working long shifts.

In 2018 the Scottish Government commissioned an Expert Working Group to examine how it could implement a 48-hour working week for hospital doctors.

Brian wrote four times requesting a copy. When that failed, he managed to obtain a copy under Freedom of Information laws, but found there were 37 redactions in the 21-page report.He appealed, asking to see an unredacted version.

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