A new private hospital at Braehead is planned. It is likely to be used in the fight to tackle the NHS's backlog of elective surgery cases
THE news that BMI Ross Hall is opening what is essentially a surgical factory at Braehead ("£20m private hospital to be opened by Ross Hall owner on outskirts of Glasgow", The Herald, July 22) is to be welcomed. Any effort to reduce the enormous NHS waiting lists for elective surgery such as hip and knee replacements is worthwhile. The cost of £20m, leasing a commercial building, shows what can be done with some imagination, quite contrary to the slow pace and high costs of the long-delayed NHS elective centres.