Skip to main content

Language: English / GĂ idhlig

Loading…

Chamber and committees

ICU at Inverclyde Royal Hospital

  • Submitted by: Jamie Greene, West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 October 2020
  • Motion reference: S5M-22984
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 25 November 2020

That the Parliament is significantly concerned over reports that the ICU provision of the Inverclyde Royal Hospital’s critical care offering, in Greenock, is closing and that patients requiring that type of critical care will be transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow for treatment; believes that Inverclyde has been disproportionally impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; considers this closure to be ill-advised given the continuing prevalence of COVID-19 and need for intensive care in the surrounding region; notes the considerable hardship and stress that it believes this will place on local families who visit their loved ones in hospital; understands that, in the seven days leading up to 3 October 2020, Inverclyde recorded 34 new cases of COVID-19 at a rate of 43.7 per 100,000 people; notes the calls on all political parties represented in the Scottish Parliament to collectively raise these concerns with the local NHS board and the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, given the current national health emergency, and further notes the calls on the Scottish Government to look into this matter immediately with a view to a substantial rethink of this action.


Supported by: Jackie Baillie, Jeremy Balfour, Michelle Ballantyne, Neil Bibby, Bill Bowman, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw, Peter Chapman, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Maurice Corry, Murdo Fraser, Rachael Hamilton, Alison Harris, Liam Kerr, Monica Lennon, Gordon Lindhurst, Tom Mason, Margaret Mitchell, Edward Mountain, Alexander Stewart, Annie Wells, Brian Whittle