Hospice care provision is now under threat

April 1 was an appropriate date for publication of Andrew O Robertson's letter as it fails to allay fears about the future of St Margaret's Hospice in Clydebank. I recently met Mr Robertson, chairman of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. I asked that the health board reinstate the five-year contract to provide care to the frail elderly which had been agreed between the hospice and the board and which was, without explanation, removed by the board. The hospice has never had a contract and this leaves us vulnerable to changing board policies, in particular the private funding of the replacement hospital at Blawarthill where our beds are to go.