{"id":193470,"date":"2025-06-18T04:26:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193470\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T04:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T04:26:15","slug":"inverclyde-royal-hospital-rehabilitation-unit-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193470\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverclyde Royal Hospital rehabilitation unit under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Tele can reveal that a review is now taking place into the future of the neurorehabilitation unit, formerly known as the PRDU ward.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Health bosses have drawn up a set of proposals for the future of the facility, which provides care for patients who have suffered serious head injuries, major trauma or\u00a0neurological conditions like MS.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of the options being considered is to move the unit to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where a similar facility is already in operation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Officials from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are in the early stages of consulting with staff about the future of the unit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Inverclyde MP Martin McCluskey\u00a0\u00a0(Image: George Munro)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The health board says no final decision has been made, and that any formal proposals for change would be the subject of engagement with staff and the wider public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But it admits that there are challenges in providing appropriate levels of cover at the unit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Local MP Martin McCluskey told the Telegraph: &#8220;This is a very worrying development and I would urge Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board to reject any option to close the neuro rehabilitation unit in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inverclyde<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This is very worrying for those who rely on this service, and it is yet another service being moved out of Inverclyde.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I have fought time and time again against the centralisation of health services away from Inverclyde. Why should Inverclyde lose\u00a0health services to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/local-news\/paisley-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paisley<\/a> or Glasgow?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    <strong>Read more Tele headlines&#8230;<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This comes after the GP out of hours service was moved, despite the public overwhelmingly rejecting it in a consultation.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I would say to the health board to honour a full public consultation, to take the opinions into consideration, and\u00a0not to ride roughshod over the people of Inverclyde again.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The service was revamped three years ago, with the physical rehabilitation disability\u00a0unit (PDRU) renamed the neurorehabilitation unit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Health board bosses\u00a0hoped\u00a0that redesign\u00a0in 2022 would secure the unit\u2019s future, with investment in staff on the site and reinstating the full service at the Larkfield Unit again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"A redesign of the IRH service was completed only three years ago - but the staffing issues that led to that redesign have now become a problem again.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>A redesign of the IRH service was completed only three years ago &#8211; but the staffing issues that led to that redesign have now become a problem again. (Image: George Munro) The redesign followed years of uncertainty around the PRDU service, with patients forced to move between a daytime and night-time ward.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At one stage in 2019 it was closed for a time because of a shortage of doctors \u2013 and now staffing issues have placed the unit\u2019s future in doubt once again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Staff were informed of the review last week, with four options on the table.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Those include keeping the status quo, two revised options for \u2018shared care\u2019 at Inverclyde Royal and the QEUH, and closure of the IRH facility altogether.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk\/news\/20127256.rehabilitation-service-vulnerable-patients-inverclyde-royal-overhauled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE: Award-winning IRH rehab unit to close due to doctor shortage (from July 2019)<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde spokesperson said: &#8220;The neurorehabilitation unit review underway is aimed at assessing the service provision across its two sites at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) and Inverclyde Royal Hospital (IRH).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There are currently challenges in providing appropriate medical and nursing cover over the two sites which is consistent with the national availability of highly specialised staffing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Early discussions have commenced with staff, and any action to progress a proposal to change the service would involve further engagement with staff as well as with stakeholders and the public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It is important to make clear that there is currently no defined change to the existing service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tele can reveal that a review is now taking place into the future of the neurorehabilitation unit,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114702476015956601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}