HEALTH chiefs have unveiled the shape of things to come for Vale of Leven Hospital. And a key pledge is that record numbers of patients will be treated. New services planned for the campus include a rehabilitation service, a day hospital for older people and a GBP15million care home.

HEALTH bosses have unveiled the shape of things to come for the Vale of Leven Hospital - and a key pledge is that record numbers of patients will be treated.

By EUAN HAMILTON LABOUR have called for independent bug busters to fight killer C.diff. MSP Jackie Baillie claimed hospitals cannot be trusted to carry out their own inspections. The demand came after a fatal outbreak at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley last week.

HOSPITAL-acquired infections (HAIs) continue to take a toll in Scotland. A ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley has been closed to new admissions after the clostridium difficile (C Diff) bacterium contributed to the death of a patient last week and infections in seven others.

By STEWART PATERSON A HOSPITAL ward has been closed to new admissions after seven patients were diagnosed with the clostridium difficile bacteria. The patients at ward six of Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline, Fife, took ill with diarrhoea on Friday .