A NHSGGC spokeswoman said the health board was now “confident of the water quality in the ward”, however the ventilation system did not fully comply with NHS guidance.<\/p>\n
She said exemptions were previously agreed in 2017 and ongoing risk mitigations continue to be applied as the ward remains open.<\/p>\n
The spokeswoman added: “Patient safety remains central to everything we do.<\/p>\n
“Due to ongoing infrastructure defects, we have closed a number of rooms in recent weeks to undertake both planned refurbishment as well as responding to a number of defects.”<\/p>\n
The health board said it was “necessary” to develop a proposal for a new unit which would be more resilient, fully compliant with legal guidance and provide greater patient, staff and public confidence. <\/p>\n
“This project will take significant time and investment. However, we are now commencing this important work,” the spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n
“In the meantime, we continue to assess and take actions as necessary to maintain this vital national service.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NHSGGC spokeswoman said the health board was now “confident of the water quality in the ward”, however…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-481566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}