Bosses at Scotland’s largest well being board have rejected claims they’ve imposed “swingeing” cuts within the variety of beds for kids.
NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde insisted that Labour’s declare of a 40% reduce in paediatric beds over the past decade was “clearly unsuitable”.
Scottish Labour well being spokeswoman Jackie Baillie accused the board of inflicting a “hammer blow to paediatric care” on the Royal Hospital for Kids, saying the typical variety of accessible, staffed, paediatric beds fell from 200 in 2011-12 to 120 in 2020-2021.
However a spokesman for NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde mentioned: “The precise figures for common staffed accessible beds as reported by Public Well being Scotland is 237 (2019-20) and 230 (2020-21).”
Ms Baillie had said: “With kids from everywhere in the nation coming to Glasgow for specialist remedy, it needs to be a centre of excellence – however as an alternative beds are being stripped away.
Jackie Baillie mentioned Glasgow’s flagship hospital ‘needs to be a centre of excellence’ (Jane Barlow/PA)
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“We can not reduce corners on the subject of children’ well being.
“That is the SNP’s flagship hospital, however as an alternative of investing in youngster well being the board is slicing beds.
“The SNP and the well being board management should halt these swingeing cuts and restore mattress numbers to the place they should be.”
Nevertheless the spokesman for NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde mentioned the figures issued by Labour have been “inaccurate” and “misinterprets a sub-set of knowledge”.
He said: “Any declare that paediatric beds inside NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde have been topic to ‘harmful’ cuts is categorically unfaithful, and to report these figures as reality could be inaccurate and deceptive.”
The spokesman continued: “The Royal Hospital for Kids (RHC) is a 244-bed hospital, so to recommend that the whole variety of paediatric beds inside NHSGGC is lower than half of that determine is clearly unsuitable.”
He insisted: “There was sturdy mattress modelling as a part of the planning for Royal Hospital for Kids, and because it opened in 2015 there was no discount in inpatient beds excluding short-term switch of Ward 2a/2b to Ward6a/4b. Ward 2a/2b are scheduled to reopen early in 2022.
“The Royal Hospital for Kids is without doubt one of the main paediatric care centres within the UK, and the biggest in Scotland, offering family-centred care to newborns, infants, kids and younger individuals each in hospital and in the neighborhood.
“The positioning supplies a variety of extremely advanced medical, surgical, cardiac and psychological well being companies to kids throughout Scotland.
“Greater than 304,000 sufferers have been handled within the Royal Hospital for Kids between 2019 and 2021 – 21.5% of Scotland’s paediatric care instances within the yr ending March 2021.”
A Scottish Authorities spokeswoman mentioned: “The Royal Hospital for Kids (RHC) is the biggest paediatric care centre in Scotland, offering family-centred care to newborns, infants, kids and younger individuals, each in hospital and in the neighborhood.
“The switch of companies from Paisley’s Royal Alexandra Hospital allowed the RHC to considerably increase the variety of common paediatricians on the location, with greater than 304,000 sufferers benefiting from a variety of extremely advanced medical, surgical, cardiac and psychological well being companies there within the final two years.
“Medical groups working throughout RHC proceed to facilitate care near dwelling, motion from inpatient to day care pathways and expanded supply of care from dwelling, which has led to a clinically acceptable discount in inpatient mattress utilization.
“The redesign of companies means kids obtain fashionable, high-quality care nearer to their households.”
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