NHS to keep £4m from ex-HQ sale

NHS Lothian has won the battle to gain access to money raised from the sale of its former headquarters.

Health chiefs were told in February that the 4 million generated by selling off Deaconess House on the Pleasance would have to be given to the Scottish Government to reinvest elsewhere in the country.

But after protests from local health bosses that decision has now been reversed. It is understood they successfully argued that because the sale was discussed before the rule-change, they should be allowed to keep the receipts.

The Evening News revealed last week that the former hospital will be turned into student flats for Edinburgh University.