Under-threat hospital achieving results no other health service can offer, former boss says
A hospital facing the loss of its overnight ward is achieving results that no other health service can boast, according to its former head.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is proposing to shut all seven inpatient beds at the Centre for Integrative Care (CIC) the only hospital of its kind in the UK.
The proposals are part of a raft of cuts aimed at saving NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde around £70million.
Dr David Reilly, the hospital's former Clinical Director, led the campaign in 2004 when the ward was first threatened, and the beds already cut from 15.
The Scottish Government later recommended not only retaining the beds but expressed hope that the 'person-centred' approach used at the CIC could be more widely spread across the health service.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde itself acknowledged that the service offered, " a valid and important model of care for patients whose needs were not being met by conventional treatment."
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is proposing to shut all seven inpatient beds at the Centre for Integrative Care (CIC) the only hospital of its kind in the UK.
The proposals are part of a raft of cuts aimed at saving NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde around £70million.
Dr David Reilly, the hospital's former Clinical Director, led the campaign in 2004 when the ward was first threatened, and the beds already cut from 15.
The Scottish Government later recommended not only retaining the beds but expressed hope that the 'person-centred' approach used at the CIC could be more widely spread across the health service.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde itself acknowledged that the service offered, " a valid and important model of care for patients whose needs were not being met by conventional treatment."
Read the full article here.
To get in touch with the paper, you can contact the letters page by emailing letters@eveningtimes.co.uk, tweet them: @EveningTimes, via Facebook: www.facebook.com/eveningtimes or by post: Evening Times, 200 Renfield Street. G2 3QB
