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Health Service Forum South East Minutes of a regular meeting of the Health Service Forum SE held on 14 June 2011 in the Larkfield Centre These are draft Minutes, subject to confirmation at the next meeting Contents
Guest Speaker, Mark McAllister, GG&CHB
Guest Speaker, Mark McAllister, GG&CHB
Pat Lally, President, opened the meeting and welcomed Mark McAllister of the Community Engagement and Transport team at the GG&C Health Board, Mark accompanied his talk with a powerpoint presentation showing the current situation at the Southern General Campus and artists impressions of the future The new laboratories have been constructed and the facilities management building have been constructed on schedule There will be two major laboratory facilities in Glasgow, one at the New South Acute Hospital the other at the Royal Infirmary. Specimens for analysis will be transported from the hospital buildings via a pneumatic system and robotic vehicle will carry samples through by way of an underground facility to the laboratories. At present a new electricity sub station is being installed on site. A major work is being undertaken to divert a culverted stream away from the construction site for the new buildings. Solar panels are not included in the design of the buildings but wind turbines will be sited on the roofs of some buildings. When questioned about the capacity of the energy centre, which will be in megawatts, and whether the subterranean links were entirely above the water table , Mark advised that he would find out about these two points and advise us at a later date. We received a response to our queries as follows; 1) The capacity of the energy centre? The energy centre has the following capacity: Electrical - 18.5 MVA 2) Whether the subterranean links are above the water table ? The water table level varies across the site. If the water table reaches its highest anticipated level, it will be above the floor levels of the subterranean link. This has been considered as part of the overall scheme design and in accordance with standard practices and building regulations the facilities are designed to take account of this. Stage 2 of the overall plan for the site is in progress and entails the detailed design of the adult and children’s hospital buildings. This involves consultation with over seventy different groups of users and the design of 700 different room types. There will 2-3 meetings with each user group to obtain their input to the requirements. Already one multi-story car park is operational and there are a further 3 to be constructed. A total of 10,000 people will be employed on site of which 8000 are full time jobs. Mark was asked about the traffic problems that might occur at changing of work shifts. There could be 3000 cars leaving and the same number arriving for the next shift. This is a logistics problem that will have to be resolved. There will be a great deal of vehicle traffic on site to service the needs of the hospital as well as the private vehicles of the staff, patients and vehicles and the public transport. Those travelling by public transport will be dropped off at the front of the hospital separate from the private vehicle access. Laundry, catering and sterilisation of surgical instruments are services that have already been centralised by the Health Board on other sites throughout the city. Food will be brought in frozen to be reheated by microwave as required. The Chairman thanked Mark for coming and bringing us up to date with the work at the SGH site. The business meeting followed. Apologies
Apologies were received from Margaret Hinds, Eric Canning, Douglas McGregor, Dorothy Walls, May McClelland, Vicki Simmie, Alastair Glen. Minutes
The minutes of the 10 May were accepted as correct and adoption was proposed by James Sandeman and seconded by Pat Lally. There were no matters arising. Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer reported a balance at the bank of £2057.73 Mary was pleased to say that a great many members had renewed their subscriptions and urged others to send their dues. AOCB
The Southern Cross Care Homes were discussed especially in the light of the information that the Forum was given that inspectors of the care homes are under great pressure due to the cutting of their budget. Inspections will be less frequent i.e every two years unless there have been complaints or inadequacies already found. A member asked whether the pilot scheme of electing members of certain Health Boards was proving to be beneficial to the overall running of these Boards. Financially the elections were hugely expensive with a large number of candidates and a 15% turnout of the voting public. One of our members has pointed out an omission in the latest edition of the Health Board’s Health News. This edition deals with the subject of parenting and reports on the various seminars that have been organised to run over the months of May and June to help parents with the upbringing of their children. It was noted that the venues for these seminars were not readily accessible for those in areas such as Govanhill and Pollokshields and we have drawn this to the attention of Ally McLaws, Head of Communications. An acknowledgement has already been received and we will report on the outcome next session. Date of Next Meeting
Next meeting Tuesday 13 September 2011 at 7.30 p.m. A representative from Community Pharmacy Scotland |
