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Te roof of the building hosts a landing pad for aircraſt so that emergency patients can be brought to the hospital by the fastest means possible.
Another very different time-saving design feature is the fact that the building’s blinds are behind the glass of the windows, which saves on cleaning.
Nearly all the beds in the hospital are in their own rooms with views out over the city. Te atrium of the new hospital houses shops and a coffee shop with a large restaurant/coffee area on the first floor of the hospital complete with a balcony and views out onto the landscaped area in front of the hospital. Te whole of the emergency floor of the hospital has been designed to stream patients to the most appropriate area for rapid treatment. Te plan is that if a GP considers that a patient needs to be seen as an emergency by a hospital specialist, the patient will go straight into the 118-bed acute receiving unit rather than be admited to the emergency department. Tis acute receiving unit is staffed with a dedicated team of acute care physicians who have developed a more extensive range of diagnostic and acute skills. A team of diagnostic staff, radiographers, laboratory support and nursing and allied health professionals supports these specialist doctors.
Te aim is for them to investigate and treat patients in the acute receiving unit with a view to geting them home, not stabilising them and admiting them to hospital.
Te South Glasgow University Hospital campus hosts its own £90 million laboratory which has more than 700 staff, including medical, clinical scientists, biomedical scientists, technical assistants, administrative and clerical staff.
Tis one centre brings together most of the Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board lab services into the one place, including pathology, microbiology, virology, blood sciences, genetics as well as the mortuary.
Along with the move came some new ways of working and delivery of testing. Blood sciences now have a huge automated robotic track in their laboratory, which takes up the sample tubes, transports them to the correct analyser and gets on with the analysis ready for the healthcare scientist to report.
Te fact that all these services are co-located means that the scientists can develop new ways
The hospital has a landing pad for helicopters
of working and can re-design care pathways for patients.
Te South Glasgow complex will be at the leading edge of stratified or personalised medicine. Biomedical informatics company Aridhia and global biotechnology tools company Life Technologies – now part of Termo Fisher Scientific – are key partners in the Stratified Medicine Innovation Centre based at the complex.
Te centre will carry out world-leading research into recent advancements in biomedical research that has begun to identify why people with the same disease or condition do not respond equally to the same medicines and treatments.
Gordon Lowther, Head of Service of Genetics, said: “Technology and testing is developing very rapidly and what we know, understand and are able to test for expands day by day. Using genetic testing we can predict which patients will benefit from a particular drug and, more importantly, which won’t, so not wasting expensive drugs on patients who will not benefit from them.”
New ways of working and partnerships are at the heart of another major new facility in Glasgow.
Te Technology & Innovation Centre
(TIC) at the University of Strathclyde is a hub for world-leading research and aims to transform the way academics, business, industry and the public sector work together in partnership.
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