The NHS Tayside chief executive is set to be quizzed when the public inquiry into disgraced neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel formally begins next month. Dr James Cotton, executive medical director, has been called on September 29. Lynn Smith, chief officer for acute services, will be quizzed on September 30. And Sandra MacLeod, who was interim deputy chief executive until recently, will take questions on October 2. Tracey Gillies, NHS Lothian’s executive medical director, previously carried out a report into the Eljamel scandal in 2019.