Day: December 12, 2012

12.12.12 The Twelve Songs of Christmas Quiz

Get into the Christmas spirit with our seasonal song quiz!

Below you’ll find the initials to the words in the first lines of twelve popular Christmas songs. Can you work out the first line and the song title? There’s a possibly half-eaten selection box for one lucky winner – you’ve got twelve days to get your entries in. Good luck!

  1. I D O A W C
  2. O L T O B
  3. A R O H F I T S
  4. O T F D O C
  5. T S T B S A C
  6. O C A Y F
  7. Y B W O
  8. W W I T A
  9. T M I R
  10. T T I A H T N A H
  11. L T A I B
  12. W T S B T S
'I think I know number four ...'
‘I think I know number four …’

 

 

Council welcomes Victoria’s temporary re-opening

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The city council has welcomed NHS Lothian’s decision to re-open the Royal Victoria Hospital to help meet increasing demand and emergency admissions over winter.

Wards in the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) will be re-opened to provide extra capacity for the expected increase in the number of patients over the next few months. The move comes as the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is facing increasing pressure from emergency admissions, with the situation then being exacerbated by the numbers of delayed discharge patients and other issues including the winter vomiting virus norovirus.

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The temporary solution has been welcomed by the city council’s Health and Wellbeing Convener Councillor Ricky Henderson (pictured above), who said: “There is a growing demand for care and support services, especially at this time of year, so the reopening of  the Royal Victoria Hospital will help to meet demand. The Council has been working extremely hard with NHS Lothian to  address identified shortages and since April we have increased the level of homecare service the Council provides by an extra 4,000 hours per  week. We have also made additional investment in our homecare overnight  teams, intermediate care service and telehealthcare service to help  ensure the essential care required is available for older people in  their own homes.”

Melanie Hornett, Nurse Director, NHS Lothian, said: “We have taken a long, hard look at the facilities and resources we have available as part of our winter planning exercises and we know we don’t have the abilities to meet demand. As a result, we have put this temporary solution in place to allow us to serve patients in a timely manner, while increasing our capacity from within.”

The contingency plan was drawn up as part of routine winter planning, which in previous years has seen bed numbers increased on other sites, including Astley Ainslie Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital and Liberton Hospital among others.

Two extra wards will be re-opened over the next few weeks, with the potential to increase as the winter progresses and demand increases as a result of winter weather.

The Royal Victoria Hospital closed in August after the last ward moved on to different sites within NHS Lothian, including the new Royal Victoria Building at the Western General Hospital and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.