Help to shape Our Health HEALTHHEALTH PAGE 2 Tackling the parking problem NEWSNEWS PAGE 4 WORKING FOR A BETTER HEALTH SERVICE - SUMMER 2004 Deadly duo of alcohol and tobacco Read the facts about smoking and drinking ... and be afraid HE TWO biggest causes NHS Greater Glasgow can only do so poor diet will only lead to a bleak future much and we will do everything we can dominated by debilitating illnesses such of illness in Greater to help. as heart disease, stroke, cancer and Dying for TGlasgow are the two But it’s up to YOU to take diabetes. that are most preventable. responsibility for your own health. “All doctors working in what is breath arguably Europe’s sickest city are Between them, smoking and alcohol Dr Harry Burns, Director of Public Health for NHS Greater Glasgow, said: heartily sick of witnessing so many PAGES 6 and 7 wreak havoc through our communities. “People need to wake up to what they wasted lives, opportunities and precious They cause sickness, they cause death are doing to themselves. We all need to NHS resources and then having to pick and they bring untold misery to the take responsibility for our own health up the pieces of self-inflicted disease.” Our fatal thousands of people who, every year, and make the conscious choice to follow This edition of NHS Health News have their lives cut short or seriously healthier lifestyles. makes no apology in presenting a hard impeded by the illnesses they bring. “The message can’t be clearer - a hitting analysis of two of Glasgow’s attraction It’s time to do something about it. lifetime of heavy drinking, smoking and biggest killers - smoking and alcohol. PAGES 8 and 9 For more information about NHS Greater Glasgow ... log on to our website at www.nhsgg.org.uk 2 NHS GREATER GLASGOW HEALTH NEWS NHS GREATER GLASGOW HEALTH NEWS 3 Health priorities and finite budgets Working towards an improved service ROYAL VISIT: Front (left to right) ‘21st Century Professor Sir John Arbuthnott, Prince Charles, Liz Cameron (Lady Provost, Glasgow City Council); Middle: Dr Carol Craig (author of steamie’ opens The Scots Crisis of Confidence) and Councillor Jim Coleman A NEW laundry which will clean the (Deputy Leader of Glasgow City Difficult linen of all Glasgow’s hospitals is due for Council and NHSGG Board member); opening in autumn this year. Back: Michael Fox (Prince’s Based at Hillington Industrial Estate, Trust), Professor Phil Hanlon the £4.9million facility will wash, dry and (Professor of Public Health at the iron the thousands of items of bed linen University of Glasgow), Dr Harry and other items used by NHS Greater Burns (Director of Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow), Malcolm Glasgow staff and patients every year. Chisholm (Minister for Health & Project manager, Alex McIntyre said: Community Care), Dr Carol “This new, modern laundry will provide Tannahill (Centre for Population decisions Health Manager), Councillor Bill a service that is much quicker and cost- Timoney (Glasgow City Council Spending is about providing value ... not winning friends effective than before. Because of the new spokesman on health) and Pam high tech machinery we are installing, White. there will be less need for staff to PENDING NHS manually handle the linen, improving money has safety and efficiency.” Salways been Royal visit to Centre for Health about priorities and Seeing the THE reasons why Glasgow is one of about the innovative work of the not improving as quickly as difficult decisions. HOW the Press have reported on the spending problems facing Greater Glasgow. the sickest cities in Europe was just centre. elsewhere. New drug treatments, new common with other Scottish units into a single, more efficient one of the topics discussed by HRH The Centre for Population Health As well as trying to understand sophisticated equipment, health systems, is facing a very unit. big picture Prince Charles during a recent visit is a new initiative set up by NHS investing in alcohol, drug or better what creates health in a city, challenging couple of years that Laundry services are now all to the city. Greater Glasgow in partnership with the new Centre for Population tobacco projects. will inevitably involve making on one site in Hillington THE NHS team with a mission to engage Prince Charles met representatives Glasgow City Council and the Then there’s child health, decisions that will not be delivering efficiencies. local communities in Greater Glasgow’s from the Glasgow Centre for University of Glasgow. Its specific Health will also work on new ways maternity services, mental popular with some patient Other areas that will deliver £750 million hospitals modernisation, is Population Health and the Health remit is to examine in closer detail to narrow the health gap between health, cancer, heart and stroke groups or some medical or efficiencies and the release of gearing up to deliver a full programme of Minister Malcolm Chisholm to talk the reasons why health in Glasgow is Glasgow and the rest of Scotland. initiatives. political interests. current spending to front-line work in the coming weeks. Hospital cleaning, catering for Pressures in the form of NHS care include: One of its tasks will be to distribute a patients, the sterilisation of Greater Glasgow having to 1. Pan-Glasgow procurement CD-ROM which contains a short presentation explaining why hospitals are surgical equipment and the role identify £46m from existing 2. Improvements in being modernised and what this will of the NHS in continuing care spending plans to fund new prescribing management for the elderly are amongst the mean for services. workforce and service delivery 3. Bringing together separate other areas competing for finite Team head, Niall McGrogan, explains: changes emerged. The challenge functions within former Trusts “Although at first sight it seems that the funds. originally amounted to £58m but and the Board into one including Well done mum! Investing in the issues surrounding the city’s hospitals are The budgets given from the Health Minister Malcolm Finance /Human Resources / NHS Greater Glasgow staff were presented with certificates very complicated, when you break them Scottish Executive to local health Chisholm announced extra NHS Estates Management and at the recent SVQ awards ceremony by stars from the BBC’s down, the systems have never been bigger. Scotland funding of which Communications. soap opera, River City. problems and But the pressures on the NHS Glasgow’s share was £12m. There are also plans to our proposals to to reduce waiting times; improve Joyce Falconer, who plays Roisin and Morag Calder, who Overall there will still be more concentrate services such as deal with them health; better the wages, plays Ruth, presented certificates to candidates, assessors and money spent on health in cardiothoracic surgery on one are actually conditions and training of Glasgow this year and in future site instead of two to deliver internal verifiers at the first ceremony of its kind, which took future of Stobhill place at Jury’s Glasgow in June. quite straight- thousands of dedicated health years ... but spent differently. better and more efficient services forward and staff; and satisfy the increasing Inevitably the NHS has had to to patients. SVQs, which are designed to be delivered in the workplace logical. £100million development includes new walk-in hospital expectations of patients present and are based on national standards developed by industry take a hard look at everything We have promised to look at “The short huge challenges. for industry, are achieved through training and assessment. ORE than £100million plans were first put together, there has Originally the unit was not going to that is done and the way it is everything we do and to work presentation on been the opportunity to accelerate the close before 2007 when the new These challenges are about A wide range of staff received certificates, among them worth of new done. It has to modernise the with staff, patients and other the disk sets out provision of new day surgery theatres ambulatory care hospital opens, but, making decisions about where developments are being way we do things. In this issue stakeholders to deliver the best Catherine Scott, Healthcare Assistant at Parkview Resource the issues in a very clear way and will M and endoscopy rooms and these will due to a number of outside pressures, best to spend available monies of Health News you can find out health service we can with Centre, who received her certificate from a familiar face - her help people understand what will be built on the Stobhill Hospital now be an integral part of the new NHS Greater Glasgow will have to close .... and where not to. about how we are centralising agreed priorities and within our daughter, Morag Calder (picture above). happening to hospitals and what they can site over the next five years. ACAD hospital. It has also been agreed it in August 2005. NHS Greater Glasgow, in six instrument decontamination resources. expect from a modern system of care.” And things are going to start that the hospital will provide some A drop-in Minor Injuries Unit will If you would like a free copy of the happening at the hospital soon. services for people living in the east end take its place and planning is underway hospitals modernisation CD-ROM or Costing in the region of £80m, one of of Glasgow, including day surgery, to develop the service for emergency would like to arrange a presentation by the biggest new developments on the gynaecology and renal outpatients. patients who currently use the unit. Niall’s team to an organisation you site will be the building of the new Due to pressures on the service, the Part of the modernisation of the belong to, contact the NHS Greater Stobhill Ambulatory Care Hospital.