I REFER to the article published on March 29 with regards to the possible mismanagement of funds for the Centre for Integrative Care.

It’s been bad enough that they are closing the ward but to think that the funds may have been mismanaged beggars belief.

This hospital was built specifically for the homoeopathic hospital and it is doubtful the board have the right to change the use of the ward.

We need to find out what exactly happened to the funds for the ward.

Joyce Harvie, by email

Remove control

I SYMPATHISE with Caroline Wilson’s attempt to make sense of the Health Board’s approach to the Centre for Integrative Care.

She implies a number of fundamental questions which NHSGGC should be a) asking themselves and b) answering in public.

They are; Why was a fully-funded building apparently leased to the intended beneficiary?

If the lease died in 2004, and the lessee “no longer exists”, did the terms of the lease not include a termination clause ensuring proper resolution?

And if the lessee no longer exists, what about the lessor - West Glasgow Hospitals University Trust?

If NHSGGC are holding £1m in homeopathic endowment funds, why are they (and some of their cohorts) apparently hell-bent on closing down homeopathy?

NHSGGC’s spokeswoman excelled herself by stating the obvious (the old Homeopathic Hospital has widened its scope as the CIC), then fell into her own trap by implying that homeopathy is still its main raison d’etre.

I agree with David Reilly that one solution would be to remove the CIC from NHSGGC’s control. Third sector ownership would be one option, another might be a Scottish Government prepared to stand by its aspiration of a national chronic pain centre.

Remember the tussle between NHSGGC and St Margaret’s Hospice? The Board at that time demonstrated its total lack of understanding of the role or operation of palliative care, and I feel another attack of deja vu coming on.

James Sandeman, Secretary of the Scottish Health Campaigns Network

Unfit for purpose

ARE average speed cameras the only answer the Scottish Transport minister has to our appalling road network (March 29).

How about building proper motorways North to the likes of Aberdeen and Inverness and across country to both those cities.

These major roads are currently not fit for purpose with little sections of dual carriageway to appease motorists.

Get your hand into your pocket Mr Yousaf and bring Scotland into the twenty first century.

Les Trueman, Glasgow