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extent as to whether they think these are patients that could be
safely cared for.
In addition to that we had GP’s going in
over the course of about a week or two, going on *** receiving
ward rounds with consultants and making a statement as to
whether they felt these were the kind of cases that they could
safely deal with in the hospital without requiring consultant
input and again the figures actually came up round about the
same kind of level, it’s between 75 and 80 percent of the
current admissions could be safely dealt with by GP’s.
So I feel that we have got quite a good
body of evidence to support that and I’m confident that actually
on a person with hands on experience of dealing with these
patients, that these are not patients that would pose particular
problems.
If anything we’ve effectively lowered the
bar to some extent in the sense that we would be looking at
transferring more patients to Paisley on the acute basis which
makes this model of care more accessible to other doctors who
would be interested in taking on that additional training and I
think that would make it safer to be honest.
But I certainly am confident we could
sustain acute admissions around 70 to 80 percent.
With respect to consultant involvement we
have been very, very clear from the outset, as Helen will know,