A new £1 million unit at University Hospital Crosshouse is helping to improve patients’ experience when they attend for a surgical procedure.
Mr Tait with volunteers and nursing staff who are ready to welcome patients into the new unit.
A new ‘surgical same day admission’ unit has opened its doors and means patients who require a planned inpatient surgical procedure can now attend hospital on the day of their operation directly through this unit. Previously, patients would come into the ward first, often the day before their procedure spending a night there, unnecessarily in most cases. Once the patient has had their surgery, they recover on the appropriate hospital ward until their discharge.