I was greatly encouraged to read of Jim Slavin's support (Letters, September 26) to my cause for having day-care chemotherapy services returned to the New Stobhill hospital. East Dunbartonshire council voted unanimously in January 2012 to ask for the return of these facilities for its residents at our new hospital. This fell on deaf ears, with the intransigence of Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board (GGCHB) intransigence on cancer patient care in Glasgow North; South Glasgow appears okay.
These services were hitherto provided at Stobhill under Dr Robert Cumming (consultant haematologist) and for reasons best known to GGCHB there are now insufficient patient numbers to warrant this provision on the grounds, also, of being clinically unsafe to do so.
The health board has a mission statement “to resolve inequalities in patient care”.
I believe cancer patients in North Glasgow and beyond are denied ease of access to services and therefore have grounds to conclude there is inequality in services in their cancer treatments.
Tom Herbert,
Stobhill Campaigner for Equal Rights in Cancer Care within GGCHB,
33 Millersneuk Drive,
Lenzie.
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