Scots Hospital Sets Example to UK

THE Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank could show the way forward for the health service in England and Wales after ministers met at the facility.

Andy Burnham, England’s Health Minister, and DrBrian Gibbons, responsible for health at the Welsh Assembly, toured the hospital with Scottish Health Minister Andy Kerr to see how it was beating superbugs and helping to drive down waiting times.

The hospital will be home to a new West of Scotland Regional Heart and Lung Centre later this year and it plans to open another two operating theatres in the summer for orthopaedic surgery.

In the space of a year, the hospital carried out surgery on almost 29,000 patients, accounting for one in 10 of all cataract operations in Scotland and one in nine hip or knee replacements.

It has had no recorded cases of MRSA, the hospital superbug, for two years.

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