Amy at Leverndale A MENTAL health support service set up to ease pressure on A&E is going to become a permanent fixture post-pandemic following its success. In March last year teams at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and the area’s Health and Social Care Partnerships set up new units to provide specialist care and treatment to those facing a mental health crisis. It was hoped that by setting up the new Mental Health Assessment Units (MHAUs), pressure on emergency departments (EDs) would decrease and those needing help would be seen more quickly. Now, the pioneering approach will continue and patients who present to EDs or through the Scottish Ambulance Service or Police Scotland, are transported to dedicated MHAUs at Stobhill and Leverndale hospitals.
until 2018. um, and so for whatever it applies to over that period of time, it applies to. but after that period of time we should be treated like everybody else, um, and again if, um, if people believe that it is appropriate for the exclusivity ban to continue, they need to go back to congress and to get different legislation than the legislation that exists now. because the current legislation simply does not support the exclusivity ban in the current competitive positive posture of the marketplace. what happens when october 5th rolls around and it expires? do we suddenly see several exclusive contracts out there? guest: i don t think so. i think the fears have been overstated. i think that the marketplace now is such that the economics of many of these networks require broad distribution to be successful, and, um, you know, exclusivity narrows distribution by definition. and to get the economic equivalence, um, of a broadly-distributed channel when you enter into an
comcast s executive vice president. the last time you were on this program was april 2009 guest: sounds like an eternity. [laughter] host: just a few months before comcast bought a lot of nbc. do you feel fully integrated? guest: i don t know that we re fully integrated, but i think we feel very comfortable with the asset and with the level of integration between the two companies. they re, obviously, very different businesses, very different companies, and steve burke had a great vision going in that he wanted to bring the best parts of the comcast culture and the comcast management culture but respect the differences between the companies and the unique, you know, some of the unique approaches and cultures of nbc universal as being an entertainment and a content and a news and an information company as opposed to a distribution company. and i think, i think steve s been able to execute that balance, um, almost perfectly. in bringing the parts of the company together