NHS to turn private hospital into national treatment centre
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NHS to turn private hospital into national treatment centre
A private healthcare hospital has been taken over by NHS Ayrshire & Arran and will become part of the network of 10 national treatment centres (NTCs).
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Carrick Glen clinic, which was purchased for £1.8m, will be the NTC in Ayr and specialising in orthopaedics.
The network is designed to help the NHS recover from the Covid pandemic, which has caused huge treatment backlogs.
In February, it emerged the number of people on a hospital waiting list in Scotland has reached 538,000.
Once fully operational the NTC programme will deliver capacity for more than 40,000 additional surgeries and procedures each year.
Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said: "These centres will mark the largest expansion in elective care capacity in NHS Scotland with an overall investment of over £400m.
"We know that the pandemic has taken its toll on services like orthopaedics, but the network of NTCs will help address this and will be central to NHS recovery."
Mr Yousaf, who announced the purchase during a visit to University Hospital Ayr, said the NTCs in Highland, Forth Valley and Fife will begin operating the next 12 months.
A further expansion to the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, will become operational next summer.
