Glasgow's new super hospital will open its doors on Friday when £842million site will begin to treat its first patients.

With 1109 beds and around 10,000 staff, Scotland’s largest health board has been planning the big move for months.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is poised to vacate three separate hospitals, transferring around 1000 patients to the new South Glasgow University Hospital.
All while continuing to treat emergency cases.
Extra manpower is being drafted in to double-run the sites as patients are transferred, ensuring medical and nursing care are available both on the new wards and in the emptying buildings.
All leave has been “discouraged”.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) is providing a fleet of 16 vehicles dedicated to moving patients, leaving the usual 999 response team intact.
Dr David Stewart, medical director of acute services for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and chairman of the migration logistics group overseeing the move, said: “This operation has been many, many months in the planning. We have had very detailed discussion with all players in the move, including the Scottish Ambulance Service.
“We are very confident that this move will go well and that patient care will not be compromised in anyway.
“We will be engaging with patients and families in advance of the move so that everyone is very clear about what the arrangements will be.”
The board took advice from health authorities in Birmingham and Northern Ireland which have also overseen major hospital relocations.

THE three acute hospitals which are shutting – the Southern General, the Victoria Infirmary and the Western Infirmary will each close over the course of a weekend with a two-week gap between each one.
Planned surgery will stop at each site two days before the move, with some patients offered operations at the Golden Jubilee or private hospitals to prevent queues building up.
Some patients are nevertheless likely to be in the critical care units and have to shift to the new SGUH. Dr Stewart said: “If we had a critically ill patient who was not fit to transfer, we would not transfer them until they were stable.”
Accident and emergency departments will continue seeing patients until around 8am on the Saturdays when they are due to shut.
Once the doors have closed, patients who turn up in the wrong place will be greeted with a sign advising them where to go for treatment.
A drop of 561,000 leaflets to every household in the NHS GGC region will give people advanced warning about the new arrangements.
Patients who are being looked after on the wards when a hospital is shutting will be shuttled to the new SGUH by the ambulance patient transport service.
Dr Stewart said: “We have a team of clinicians responsible for looking after patients and making sure they depart the building and a team
receiving the other side.”

AN extra 410 nursing shifts have been scheduled, along with 100 extra portering and
domestic staff shifts.
It is understood the ambulance service has liaised with the police and planned their routes to the new SGUH.
A spokesman for the
Scottish Ambulance Service said: “A team of dedicated staff and vehicles has been established, and they will operate from a separate deployment centre in Glasgow, managed by a dedicated control centre in Paisley.
“This means normal ambulance cover will be unaffected, responding to 999 demand as usual. The move vehicles are not being taken from existing cover but will come from those due to be decommissioned as well as new vehicles that will be used before they are due to replace existing resources.”

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The timetable of the move into the new South Glasgow University Hospital:
24-26 APRIL: Southern General outpatients & GP out of hours service
1-3 MAY: Southern General wards, theatres, A&E and critical care units
8 MAY: Ear, nose and throat departments from the Southern General and Gartnavel General
16-17 MAY and 23-24 MAY: The Victoria
Infirmary and Mansionhouse Unit, including the Victoria A&E
30-31 MAY: Western Infirmary wards/A&E  
10-14 JUNE: Royal Hospital for Sick Children