In Your View: CIC saved my life

The inpatient ward cares for patients with long term conditions, who have tried every other treatment available to them and until they arrived at the CIC nothing else had worked.

However, once they came in to the ward they finally found solutions and the help they have needed. I myself have been an inpatient numerous times over a period of 10 years and without exaggeration they have not only saved my life and given me my life back, but I have seen miracles happen to many other inpatients.

My longterm condition of chronic pain has over the years caused me severe depression and the care, support and treatments I have received at the centre for integrative care have enormously improved my quality of life.

I know that many many people feel as strongly as I do about the proposed closure. The GGHB are saying that the changes are small changes, in order to prevent MSP's from getting involved, but for many people, closing down the beds in the ward is a major change which will have a negative impact on all the lives of these patients, their families and their friends.

Joyce Harvie,

Craigieburn Gardens, Glasgow

The Centre for Integrative Care works so why remove it?

Whose ego is involved here? When focus is on the whole rather than the specific part of the person/body it works

When no harm is offered but relief betterment cure why oh why remove it?

More and more emphasis is being made on why doctors should prescribe less conventional drugs so why is the NHS insisting on going down this route of closure? This centre has been amazing to myself family and friends - something one cannot always say about conventional medicine.

Don't get me wrong I see the need for conventional but I see more of a need to improve the drugs that are prescribed, considering the amount of side effects that come with them Please support this wonderful compassionate centre which has done so much for myself friends and family support them to truly care and heal and send all of us back into the world in a much better state .What is the NHS really after if the first rule of medicine is first do no harm.

Veronica Daly, by email

Does Nicola Sturgeon not know the meaning of democracy? Scotland voted to stay part of the UK. So we have to go by the majority vote of the UK. Stop trying to inflame the people and get on with running Scotland. It's ridiculous that the police have huge cuts, the NHS is not working yet she employs the top QC to satisfy her own ego. I hope the money is coming from her own pocket and not the taxpayers.

Marion Mulholland, Cathcart Road G42 7BX

First Bus have withdrawn the 4A service linking Kelvindale directly to the city centre. The service frequency was one bus per hour, with no evening or weekend service. First Bus cite lack of usage as the reason for withdrawal.

There is a familiar pattern here of service reduction, declining passenger numbers, and service withdrawal. The replacement M4 service proposed by First Bus, linking Kelvindale to Anniesland or Partick, will continue to have the same service frequency and operating times as the 4A.

Prior to deregulation, Kelvindale had a bus service that ran from 7am to 11pm, 7 days per week. There were up to 8 buses per hour at peak times. Since then there have been regular service and timetable reductions, resulting in the current position.

I don't think it is good enough for First Bus to operate a poor service, then set a "use it or lose it" challenge. A service with a frequency of one bus per hour is never going to be well used. So here's a challenge for First Bus. Provide a frequent service (at least 20 mins off peak frequency) linking Kelvindale directly to the city centre. Publicise the service effectively to local residents. Commit to running the service for one year, then review usage. Perhaps they will find that a great service will be well used by the travelling public.

Keith Young, by email