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Contact: Mr.
C.J. Spry
Direct Line: 0141
201 4642
Fax No: 0141
201 4630
5th June, 2001.
Dear Colleague,
ORTHOPAEDICS IN NORTH-EAST
GLASGOW
PROBLEMS
NEEDING URGENT RESOLUTION
You may recall that throughout the process of consulting on
the configuration of acute services in Glasgow we have consistently pointed to
the need to deal urgently with some problems affecting the ability to provide
safe orthopaedic cover at Stobhill.
We have been sensitive to the possibility that people who
support the retention of acute in-patient services at Stobhill would regard the
concentration of in-patient orthopaedic services at the GRI as the thin end of
the wedge. In an ideal world it would
have been desirable to defer a decision on orthopaedics until the outcome of
the larger option appraisal in the autumn.
However, the orthopaedic surgeons have insisted that the present
arrangements are not acceptable, either in terms of impact on their working
patterns or the risks to patient safety.
We are therefore consulting about how best to deal with the
problems of orthopaedics in North-East Glasgow. Our paper does however explain (in section 7) why the solution to
these problems do not prejudice the wider option appraisal on hospital futures
due to get under way later in the summer.
Since the proposal has been in the public domain, in some
detail, since last September and the problem is urgent, we are suggesting a
consultation period of 8 weeks.
I enclose a copy of the consultation paper which I hope will
provide sufficient information to allow everyone to understand the issues.
Section 8 of the paper sets out the arrangements by which
people may make comments.
Yours faithfully,
C.J. Spry
Chief Executive
Enc.
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