26 . Glasgow Business June 2015
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wo new centres in Glasgow highlight the wave of innovation in the city that is helping to create the industries of the future.
Te new South Glasgow University Hospital, the newest hospital in the UK, is one of the biggest critical care complexes in Europe. Te innovative approach at the new South Glasgow University Hospital started from the moment it welcomed its first patients at the end of April. Tey, like all the patients, were met by self check-in machines at the entry of the new 1100-bed hospital.
It is one of the first things that visitors to the complex comment on, along with stepping into the dramatic atrium, which reaches all the way up to the top of the 14-storey star- shaped building.
It is a fiting entry and design for a complex that aims to combine health services, academic research and business in a way that is truly world leading.
Te hospital cost the public purse £842 million to build but with the up-to-the- minute medical equipment it contains, the cost rose to nearer £1 billion.
It will host the Stratified Medicine Innovation Centre that will combine the strengths of the NHS and the life sciences sector with academic medicine to produce world-leading innovations for the treatment of chronic diseases.
Dr David Stewart, the Medical Director of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said: “Tis allows us to bring healthcare into the 21st century. For most of my career I’ve been working out of buildings some of which have been more than 100 years old. “Although they were fine in their day, they were not suitable for the type of technologically based healthcare which we need to deliver now.”
Dr Stewart has had the task of co-ordinating the move of the staffs of four hospitals into the one complex to ensure that a wide range of treatments and specialisms are housed in the one place.
Te move into a single complex allows the opportunity to redesign the care that is given to patients in a way that the Health Board has said will be more sustainable, with a higher quality and a greater degree of safety.
Te hospital, which serves both adults and children, features interactive displays for children developed in collaboration with the Glasgow Science Centre and a roof garden in the 256-bed children’s hospital. Te innovative facility also has robotic porters – which tell you that they are there and where they are moving to – delivering linen and other goods via a network of tunnels thus saving staff time.
New centres have launched that place Glasgow at the cutting edge
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