New Yorkhill - the Options Exclusive the Gbp100 M Hospital Sites Glasgow's Health Chiefs Didn't Want to Debate

Evening Times › October 07, 2005

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IT'S the choice the city's NHS bosses don't want Glasgow to have. The Scottish Executive has put up GBP100million to build a new hospital to replace - and enhance - the city's world-famous Yorkhill.

And NHS Greater Glasgow chiefs believe it must be built at the Southern General in Govan.

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New Yorkhill - the Options Exclusive the Gbp100 M Hospital Sites Glasgow's Health Chiefs Didn't Want to Debate

But this week, they suffered the humiliation of being over-ruled by Health Minister Andy Kerr.

He told them an independent group chaired by Edinburgh expert Andrew Calder would consider ALL the options for a new site, not just the Southern.

And Mr Kerr said he - not the health board - would make the ultimate decision about where the new hospital will be sited.

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