14th June 2007
“Every Ounce” of Health Board Capacity
Must be Focussed on Reassuring Women – McNeil
Commenting on today’s announcement
from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that the cases of a number of women who had
presented for breast cancer tests at Inverclyde Royal Hospital were to be
re-examined, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Duncan McNeil, said:
“This
must be a desperately worrying time for the women affected and for their
families. They have to be uppermost
in our minds.
“The
first priority must be reassuring every woman involved as quickly as possible
and every ounce of capacity in the entire NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area
must be focussed on this.
“I
am also demanding a full inquiry led by the new Health Secretary into what has
gone wrong here and how it will be prevented from happening again.
I also expect her assurance that any solution will be based on improving
the quality of services at the IRH, not removing them.”
ENDS
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