NHS Louisa Jordan final shutdown
The final patients are being seen at the temporary hospital at the SEC
Glasgow's NHS Louisa Jordan hospital at the SEC is set to close on Thursday, with the vaccination centre being moved to the Hydro next week.
The exhbition centre halls were transformed into a temporary hospital during the early weeks of the pandemic, along with a network of Nightingale Hospitals across the UK, but it has not treated a single patient with Covid-19.
Since July 2020 it has been used to take pressure off the NHS in other ways with, carrying out 32,000 healthcare appointments, training over 6,900 healthcare staff and students and vaccinating about 175,000 people.
Today will be last day of outpatient and diagnostic appointments, all training and blood donations.
Jags at the Hyrdro
Vaccinations will continue until April 3 at the current site, and move to the Hydro location within the Scottish Events Campus from April 6.
Once relocated to the SSE Hydro, the NHS Louisa Jordan vaccination centre will continue, in partnership with other NHS Boards, to run daily clinics for members of the public to receive their Covid-19 vaccination with the ability to administer up to 10,000 vaccinations per day.
Jill Young, chief executive of NHS Louisa Jordan, said: "Thanks to the continued efforts of the public, NHS Louisa Jordan was not needed to treat Covid inpatients. However, it has made a huge impact as part of NHS recovery and remobilisation of our health system.
"Without NHS Louisa Jordan, thousands of people would not have had outpatient and diagnostic appointments, important research and training would not have been carried out, and as one of the largest vaccinations centres in the UK we have clearly played a vitally important role to protect our NHS and save lives.
"NHS Louisa Jordan has been a true collaboration from inception to decommission. I want to thank everyone who has supported the establishment and running of NHS Louisa Jordan over the last year and vaccinations going forward.''
Equipment from NHS Louisa Jordan, such as CT scanners, will be repurposed and transferred for use in other NHS facilities, helping to ensure the facility brings further benefits to patients across Scotland.
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