Yorkhill Decision

YOUR correspondent (Letters, October 5) appears to be under the misapprehension that it was my decision or a decision of the GreaterGlasgowNHS Board that the Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Queen Mother’s maternity unit should be moved from their present site at Yorkhill.

The reality is that the NHS board sought ministerial approval only for the closure of the Queen Mother’s Hospital, after long and thorough consideration, with well-supported arguments about clinical safety.

The board did not make any proposal to the Scottish Executive to close the children’s hospital.

In responding to ourmaternity services strategy in October 2004, the health minister agreed to the closure of the Queen Mother’s: on the basis that the children’s hospital was also closed and relocated to an adult hospital site, forwhich he allocated GBP100m of capital funding.

Catriona Renfrew, 350 St Vincent Street, Glasgow.