This blatant unwillingness to be open with the public, is the latest in a series of events which demonstrates the secrecy and lack of transparency from the health board about their future plans for local health services.
Just last year, the health board was intent on removing breast cancer services from the Vale, until Jackie Baillie discovered that there was no consultation with any women from the area. At the time 13 women were consulted about the changes and all of them came from Paisley.
A NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) board paper reports that it has had its Winter funding cut by the Scottish Government, based on its 2018/19 figures.
The aim of this new post is to improve the outcome of frail older adults who attend the Vale of Leven Hospital, and since then the hospital has seen a drop in seven day re-admission rates, from 6% to 2%, with 29% of patients who receive input from Craig being discharged on the same day.
Now, it appears, at least with the SNP, that there is a new protocol which involves putting on your civic chain and parading yourself before the people who elected you, announcing your resignation and being applauded from the floor of the chamber.
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I don’t think The Democrat would be exaggerating here if we were to suggest that Councillor McColl and his cronies – remember the one, their education convener no less, who, when asked to comment on the dire roadworks situation in Dumbarton, replied that the traffic jams would bring the community closer together? – should resign from their posts before the electorate give any consideration at all to supporting the SNP candidates with their vote on December 12.
