View - NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

43
The Southern General largely will look
after the emergency care, trauma and other needs of the north
west, west and south and south west of the city and parts of the
south east and the Royal Infirmary will look after most of
central north, north east, east and just a bit of south east.
Now that’s the pattern of provision in half
a dozen years from now and to have looked at disrupting all of
this, all of these established relationships for the sake of what is
annually several thousands of, several thousands, not tens of
thousands, hundreds of thousands of episodes of care just did
not seem to represent a change that was worth making when in
not many years in the west end of the city there wasn’t gonna
be an acute hospital with an A&E Department.
So I recognise the disappointment, I have
heard about it often enough but I think the down sides of trying
to make that set of changes would have been enormous in
terms of the consequences and we couldn’t have delivered on
the inpatient changes in the west of the city probably much
before two years from now.
You have spoken about GP’s and their
work and Nick will speak more about that but what he had
described previously was the enthusiasm of existing GP’s, our
need to enhance the capacity of primary care support and the
model that we want to take forward is to build the extra