GLASGOW MSP Paul Martin has called on the First Minister "keep her promise" to safeguard Lightburn Hospital after it emerged it is facing the axe for a second time.

The Evening Times revealed the rehabilitative centre, in the city's east end, could be shut down as NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde battles to make £60million of cuts.

Finance documents also detail staff and bed cuts, the closure of the children's ward at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and the removal of emergency services from the Vale of Leven hospital.

Jobs under threat include district nursing, nurse specialists, health visitors and Allied Health Professionals including radiographers.

Union leaders called for a “mature debate” among political leaders about NHS funding and the future of services.

Provan MSP Paul Martin said: "Nicola Sturgeon should keep the promise she made to patients in the East End five years ago.

"She was the Health Secretary when 7,000 people demanded she keep the hospital open and she should listen to Glasgow again.

"These secret documents reveal that under the SNP Government in Edinburgh patients and staff in Glasgow are set to lose out.

"I'll be writing to the First Minister to make clear that the most vulnerable patients in Glasgow should not bear the brunt of her government’s cuts. "

Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour’s spokesperson for Public Services, called on the SNP to take action to prevent what she described as the "decimation of local health services." .

She said the cuts would have severe consequences for local patients.

She said: This secret paper contains plans that would devastate local health services in my constituency and across the whole of the west of Scotland.

"With the future of the Community Maternity Units at Inverclyde, the Vale of Leven and the RAH hanging in the balance, the closure of the children’s ward at the RAH and the removal of emergency services at the Vale, our local health services would be cut to the bone.

“Despite all the rhetoric this paper makes it clear that NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde needs to make £60million of savings. This is an devastating example of SNP austerity resulting in more cuts to our NHS and greater centralisation of services.

“The SNP Health Secretary met with a group of my constituents only a few months ago and promised to protect and enhance services at the Vale of Leven Hospital.

"Now we know all along that plans were being drawn up to drastically cut services, not just at the Vale, but across the whole of the West of Scotland.

"The SNP is ultimately in charge of the NHS in Scotland and after nearly a decade in government and a majority in parliament people are fed up of them saying one thing but doing another.

"Patients and NHS staff need a clear guarantee from the SNP Government that all services at the Vale of Leven, RAH and Inverclyde will be protected from the cuts.”