6.1  NHSScotland body acute services strategy

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In 1997 the NHSScotland Body undertook a review of acute services provision with a view to establishing a strategic framework within which these services would be delivered in the future.

The review envisaged a significant shift from in-patient to day patient care and from secondary to primary care settings. These measures, coupled with the rapid development of new techniques will lead to a concentration of staff expertise and high cost equipment on fewer sites and the need for fewer beds. They will also result in the closure of out-dated and unsuitable hospitals.

Based on this review, the chosen option for the NHS Board envisaged the rationalisation of the existing NHSScotland Body services onto one main site with a community hospital setting at a second site.