Talk:West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital

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Should this point to the separate article on the children's facility at QEUH or the QEUH articles section on children's? I'm also not sure why the separate article exists. Imperialpeace (talk) 10:09, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

The QEUH site on the South side of Glasgow is a large hospital campus (the largest in Scotland). The adult and paediatric hospitals serving that area are both run by the same organisation- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. The adult and paediatric hospitals are now co-located on the same site. But as you can see from the ward numbering, for example, the paediatric hospital retains its own identity. Although on the same site, they are not the same hospital. [1] [2]. Drchriswilliams (talk) 10:24, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I work in the hospital and I know Childrens have a distinct identity (people even still call it Yorkhill) but they're both run as the one hospital, at least from the perspective of the majority of services. It's all integrated, even down to the Facilities department, ID badge access, robots, catering system etc etc and for most things the whole site comes under the QEUH umbrella. I do see your point but should a somewhat different identity, expressed really by name only, warrant a separate article? Imperialpeace (talk) 10:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Further to the above, the guidance for staff on StaffNet regarding the QEUH does make mention of it being the one hospital, with adults and childrens being part of the larger QEUH as a whole. HIS even say: "Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is a 1,677 bed acute hospital with a full range of healthcare specialties. The hospital is built on the site of the former Southern General Hospital and opened at the end of April 2015. The hospital houses a newly built 1,109 bed adult hospital, a children’s hospital and two major A&E departments, one for adults and one for children. This major reconfiguration of services has seen specialties relocated from the Western Infirmary, Glasgow; the Victoria infirmary, Glasgow, including the Mansion House facility; the Royal Hospital for Sick Children previously based at Yorkhill; some services from Glasgow Royal Infirmary; and a range of inpatient services from Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow." Imperialpeace (talk) 10:45, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

If the children's hospital has its own identity and this is reflected in media coverage, such as before the move and coverage of the cinema then I don't have an issue with there being a separate article. There are other examples of this in Wikipedia- the Beatson has had its own article for a long period. A moth ago there was virtually no information about the children's hospital in the QEUH article. For the past month the separate article for the children's hospital was around twice the length of the section of text that is on the QEUH article. My main concern today has been seeing an IP editor change the piping of a link to give the impression it was linking to the children's hospital article, while actually directing to a section of the QEUH article. Looking back, I see another IP in a similar range had stripped the main article template from the QEUH hospital that had previously linked to the children's hospital article. Drchriswilliams (talk) 11:12, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I see your point, perhaps a solution that all may agree with is putting a main article link back in the QEUH article and directing this to the RHC article? It's not ideal but seems to be a decent compromise and allows both to exist. Imperialpeace (talk) 11:25, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

I have renamed this article West Glasgow Ambulatory Care Hospital as that is the name by which the Yorkhill Hospital now operates. Dormskirk (talk) 11:15, 17 January 2019 (UTC)