Specialist unit at hospital aims to cut waiting times

A new specialist hospital unit that aims to cut down admission times has been opened in Aberdeen.

It is hoped the unit at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary will mean patients can avoid having to come into hospital the day before surgery.

Interim NHS Grampian chief executive professor Amanda Croft described the decision to open the Department of Scheduled Admissions as being the biggest alteration to patient admissions in decades. “The feedback from our patients has shown that it was clearly the right thing to do,” she said.