If proposals to cut the Hospital at Home service go ahead, at least 15 patients will be added to inpatient departments at the already congested Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
A 'successful' policy which helps tackle chronic A&E waiting times in Glasgow 's top hospital is set to be scrapped as early as next week.
Successive Health Secretaries have looked to extending Hospital at Home services to ease congestion at hospital front doors and prevent ambulances queuing up outside for hours at a time. There will also be staff cuts and reductions in service to first responder services, the care home nursing team, psychology, learning disability, sexual health and adult mental health among others which will have a devastating effect on those who use them.
And it admits: “The cessation of this service will result in an additional 15 patients requiring inpatient hospital care routinely.”Labour’s heath spokeswoman Jackie Baillie branded the decision to axe the service “ an abandonment the most vulnerable”. “This is a wrongheaded cut that could endanger lives and the SNP government must step in and provide the resources so the decision can be reversed.”
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