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from the consultation paper, it talks about beds currently at
Dumbarton Joint, but the Christie and the Fruin Wards are in
addition to the 122. So 122 acute plays 88 in the proposals if
we manage to keep all the acute care there.
TOM DIVERS: And the proposal here
would, as the slide says, see 27 elderly mental health beds
provided in future against a current complement that is 30 and
for adult mental health 12 against the current complement of
18.
Let me get back to my sheet, now
ophthalmology is not smoking mirrors, it’s both, okay, there is
the opportunity, it’s both, some new stuff and some existing
stuff and that’s the same with dentistry and the 20 dental
chairs, that some of those are existing chairs that are provided
but the opportunity is being taken to bring them together into a
single centre.
But the new stuff in ophthalmology,
undoubtedly the new stuff includes day case cataract and other
operations which have not been available locally. So there is
new activity around that. We can give you a more detailed
break out of the numbers but I mean my recollection for
cataract surgery was it was of the order of 500 cases per annum
and urology about which you have indeed made representations
to me over a number of years, yes new both in terms of the