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The second option is the transfer of 12
adult beds to Gartnavel Royal Hospital with junior medical
psychiatry staff providing resident and specialist medical cover
out of hours. So in the Vale model GP’s would provide out of
hours services, in the Gartnavel Royal model psychiatry staff
would provide out of hours services.
There will be access to intensive
rehabilitation beds at Gartnavel. There are pros and cons to
both options and there have been many debates with us about
those pros and cons but we will use the feedback received
during the consultation to help us to make a recommendation to
the Cabinet Secretary as part of the overall vision for the Vale
of Leven.
And again underpinning the developments
at the Vale is improved access to enhanced community
services, including planned developments by NHS Highland
which of course was a very important issue to people we met
last week in Helensburgh and Lomond, but what we want to do
is improve local services so that where possible people are not
admitted to a hospital bed and this has proved to be very
successful in Glasgow and across the UK where through the
introduction of the crisis services, outreach services and other
community services patients have not had to be admitted into
mental health beds.