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Written Question · S3W-21145 · Session 3

What services have been removed from each hospital in the NHS (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Ayrshire and Arran areas since 1997 and…

Answered Asked by Jackson Carlaw Con Lodged 18 Feb 2009

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what services have been removed from each hospital in the NHS (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Ayrshire and Arran areas since 1997 and when each was removed.

The answer

Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 16 Mar 2009 · 26 days after it was lodged, on time

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Ayrshire and Arran have provided the following information on services which have been removed from hospitals in their areas since 1997.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Hospital Site
| Year
| Description of Service Move

Acute Hospital Services

Belvidere Hospital
| 1999
| Hospital closed “ remaining elderly continuing care beds closed

Blawarthill Hospital
| 2000
| 30 elderly continuing care beds closed

2003
| 30 elderly continuing care beds closed

Canniesburn Hospital
| 2003
| Plastic Surgery relocated to Canniesburn Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary


| Oral/Maxillo-Facial Unit transferred to Institute of Neurosciences at the Southern General Hospital

Canniesburn Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
| 2007
| Paediatric Plastic Surgery out-patient services re-located to Royal Hospital for Sick Children

Cowglen Hospital
| 2001
| Hospital and remaining elderly continuing care beds closed. Physical Disability Rehabilitation Unit relocated to Southern General Hospital

Drumchapel Hospital
| 2004
| 30 elderly rehabilitation beds closed (15 reopened in 2007)

Glasgow Dental Hospital and School
| 2007
| Paediatric dental services re-located to Royal Hospital for Sick Children

Glasgow Royal Infirmary
| 2007
| Haemato-oncology service moved to new Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, Gartnavel

Cardiothoracic Surgery in-patient/out-patient service moved to new West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-21145 by reference.