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The point that Tom is making about
transferring surgery, that is new. I think what you have
highlighted on the middle page of our document here is there
are one or two typos, okay, because I have just highlighted,
since you raised it, two or three things where the word says ‘no
change’ and it should mean ‘change’.
DR NICK DUNN: Can I just add to some
of that Jackie, and I have to say that from the last time I spoke
to you I think if I’d thought I’d be sitting shoulder to shoulder
with Helen and Tom you could have knocked me over with a
feather, so I’m kind of a poacher turned gamekeeper at the
moment.
In saying that my position has always been
to make the best of what we have got locally with the interests
of patients in mind and maintaining patient safety and I’m a
pragmatist and I will do whatever is required to try and do that.
To just kind of flesh out what you referred
to with respect to the level of, or the numbers of patients that
we are likely to be able to deal with acutely at the Vale of
Leven, we actually have done additional work over the past
two or three months around that and I’m fairly confident that
these are figures that we could see in practicality being seen
and cared for at the Vale of Leven.
The 80 percent figure has been I suppose
reinforced by a couple of means. First of all looking at the