panthro wrote:I work at the GRI and I have it on good authority that there will be at least three extra general medical wards opening here soon to account for the loss of beds and patient flows when the new Sufferin' fully opens. Of course, not all singing and dancing single rooms with 'mood' lighting and electro-opaque walls but cramped, dingy open-plan Nightingale wards. I was speaking to a charge nurse recently from the WIG who says that the new SGH receiving complex will be in excess of 120 beds. I ask my patients from the Western's catchment which would they go to as a ED attender and a sizeable number say the GRI as others have mentioned. It will be interesting to see if there plans come to fruition Of course, patient flows have never been a strong point of health boards. The soon-to-be new satellite radiotherapy centre at Monklands Hospital in Airdrie expects folk from Castlemilk will accept going to Monklands for their treatment!
Off topic, but when are we at the Royal getting a new hospital? Wasn't the byline "21st Century Health Care in 19th Century Buildings" over-used when planning the new Sufferin'? Techically the Royal is 20th Century - is that how the health board get away with it? We're all fed up hearing about how wonderful the SGH will be. Couldn't they build a new more condensed Royal on the old Cattle Market with direct access to Bellgrove Station? Some compulsory purchases (car auction place) and the car parks could be built on Melbourne/Sydney St area?
Good post. GRI is the hospital of choice simply because of transport links with the west. The new SGH will, in 5 years, become part private. GRI old building at the moment is infested with fleas.