We’ve had a few reports here of excellence in Glasgow hospitals, sourced by our Glasgow Correspondent, Brian McGowan and, of course, largely ignored by our MSM as they, rat-like, follow the scent of blood and avian excrement. Today we hear:
NHS Glasgow and Greater Clyde (NHSGGC) is embracing a person centred visiting approach across hospitals to enhance patient wellbeing and recovery as part of its tailored individual care model – ‘Person Centred Visiting’ (PCV).
Visiting will no longer be restricted to specific times but rather planned around the wishes of individual patients and families. This will enable patients to decide when and for how long families and friends are able to visit. The approach aims to ensure patients are able to stay connected to the people that matter most in their lives. Person Centred Visiting (PCV) will be introduced across all inpatient wards in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
PCV centres on the individual needs of the patient, and related decision making will be led by the patient in partnership with those they would like to be part of the process. The model was developed following a comprehensive consultation with more than 500 patients, families and staff in June last year, and follows Scottish Government guidance to implement PCV in all health boards this year.
While the focus is on removing visiting time restrictions altogether, there will still be managed processes in place to ensure the privacy and dignity of all patients is respected at all times, and local guidelines are being developed in line with this. Thanks to the new approach, wards have noticed that communication between staff, patients and relatives has improved and there are more opportunities for the team to gather information to help deliver effective and safe person-centred care.
Regular readers will know that this is only the latest in a sequence of positive reports on Glasgow hospitals. See:
BBC Scotland miss another good news story about the NHS in Glasgow
From our Senior Health Researcher, Brian McGowan: A senior Glasgow doctor has just completed his 8th trip to Malawi, taking life-saving equipment and expertise to help patients with serious upper gastrointestinal disease. Prof. Adrian Stanley, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, took with him a number of endoscopes donated by NHSGGC to help patients suffering
FOUND! IN THE GLASGOW TRIANGLE: A PATIENT’S TRAVELS THROUGH THREE GLASGOW HOSPITALS
By: Ronald Maclean, Island of Lewis, a story of one man’s treatment, lacking the ‘public interest’ that the Reporting Scotland editor desires. Now if he could modify the story and introduce excessive delays and a bird-related infection leading to his near-death, then….. I live some distance from major medical centres. I was recently referred from
225th birthday of one of best hospitals in the world and it’s in Glasgow but BBC Scotland ignore it again
TuS Health Correspondent: Brian McGowan From NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde yesterday: Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) has celebrated its 225th birthday with the unveiling of a commemorative mural documenting its rich history and positive impact on healthcare.The hospital has been serving the public since 1794 and today symbolises one of the busiest and best equipped
New cancer treatment research centre for Glasgow
Research: Brian McGowan From NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde yesterday: Glasgow scientists have been awarded a major cash boost from Cancer Research UK to pioneer new radiotherapy technologies and techniques that could help more people survive cancer in the future. Experts from the Cancer Research UK Glasgow Centre are set to receive £3.5 million over
Scotland’s depressed media look away as TWO Glasgow mental health wards are praised
I hope my use of the term ‘depressed’ is not inappropriate. As well as using it to grab your attention, I’m using the word here to point to the physical way in which editorial preferences for bad news about NHS Scotland lead to stories like this being depressed and disappeared. BBC Scotland, STV, the Herald
Like Cryptococcus neoformans in or around every hospital there is still a sickening sub-culture in Pacific Quay
I return to this theme often as my latest evidence of BBC bias is attributed to a paranoid conspiracy culture which I embrace. Like Chomsky, I have never pointed to any media conspiracy and like him, I know you don’t need one to get the kind of biases prevalent in our MSM. Anyhow, ‘everybody’ tells
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Wow, you are certainly thrashing out the articles John, I thought I was going to (nominally) comment on something else, but I’m really here to alert readers to the awakened Scottish Covenant 2019 webpage:
The Digital Covenant 2019 webpage is up and running for signing:
https://digitalcovenant.co.uk
So sign it. If you are ‘waiting for the SNP’ you’ll be cold in your grave before anything happens – in saying that, only do what you feel comfortable with. At least read the first page of the signing process which describes what you need and explains that it is a legal document, so make sure that you agree with the statement before signing.
I haven’t actually been through the process yet, got to scan a couple of documents, so not sure if it is easy or not – does anyone have experience of it they would share?
I will repeat: WE are the Plan B, if you take no action then nothing will happen. Lots of little things by lots of people is cumulative – no need for major ground breaking events of organising, just whatever you feel able to do. Except for John, you should be making documentaries and doing all sorts of high profile things.
Signing this covenant thing is just one thing – I suspect it will take a while, so best to get it underway as quickly as possible and keep advertising it.
Back to the article: why DO they (the media) target the Scottish NHS for political points? You would think there were easier targets? Not that the BBC would ever try to score political points of course, and there are no conspiracies, because everyone at the BBC just innately knows that a Scottish health service must be shite compared to the English health service, despite their own evidence to the contrary. I know health scares are good for ,,, scaring people, and making them more susceptible to being influenced, but then, why would the likes of the BBC want to influence us? Because they are right, they believe, and we are wrong? Even when they know they are manipulating the news they put out? I think I’ll just stick to believing it’s a conspiracy, it’s easier on the brain.
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My wife has recently had a knee replacement at the Golden Jubilee hospital. I can’t praise the staff and the care she got highly enough.
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I am constantly posting good news articles about NHSGGC on facebook, but the media are only interested when things go wrong. I urge more folk to sign up to receive regular emails from NHSGGC, and help spread the good news.
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