NICOLA STURGEON was today challenged to give access to an inquiry report to families of young people who died after mental health service failures – after one relative complained the process had been “definitely not transparent.”

The inquiry was established after the deaths of a number of patients who had sought help from the Carseview mental-health unit in Dundee.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard – at First Minister’s Questions (FMQs) last May – raised the case of David Ramsay, who killed himself at the age of 50 having been twice turned away from Carseview.

Today Mr Leonard returned to the case at FMQs, saying Mr Ramsay’s niece Gillian Murray was unhappy with the progress of a public inquiry into the deaths.

Mr Leonard quoted Ms Murray as saying: “Nothing seems to have happened. We’re not kept involved. It’s definitely not transparent.”

The tragedies came amid a scandal of financial mismanagement at NHS Tayside.

One of the local MSPs, Shona Robinson, was the SNP health secretary until she resigned last year.

On Thursday, Ms Sturgeon said she “would want to learn lessons from the experiences of the kind narrated by Richard Leonard” and that the inquiry report would be “fully scrutinised by this chamber and the government and the health service more generally.”

She said: “I think it would be wrong to pre-empt the outcome of that inquiry but I will give an assurance we will take forward any recommendations it makes.”

Mr Leonard said: “This inquiry was launched over a year ago and the families feel like their voices have been lost. They have no confidence in the upcoming report because they feel cut out from the process that was supposed to provide them with answers and ensure necessary changes are made going forward.”