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diagnostic arrangements, the current inpatient operations that
we are being asked about, the day case surgery and as Helen’s
presentation had highlighted we will be able in future to bring
20 percent more planned care episodes onto the Vale of Leven
site.
Now if no to Paisley meant no to Paisley
then what you would be in effect asking us to do would be to
turn off all of the connections between the two hospitals, to try
and reverse out of those 70 consultant sessions a week and all
of that support that’s provided because it simply does not make
clinical sense in terms of continuity of care to separate out the
delivery of emergency care for planned care.
To answer your hypothetical question, and
one shouldn’t really answer hypothetical questions, but
experience over the course of the years has shown us that there
are not 100,000 patients a year setting their faces against the
current model that’s in place, that’s not happening.
Individual case where as you yourself are
demonstrating, individuals are talking to their GP’s and
exercising that right of choice to go into a hospital most
probably in the west of Glasgow currently.
When the new Southern General is fully
developed and open in six years time there won’t be a Western
Infirmary, there will be no Accident and Emergency
Department in the west of Glasgow and there will only be