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Health officials affiliated with NHS Grampian have defended the trust's move to accommodate patients in hotels in Aberdeen. They say that patients were only offered the choice after taking their clinical state into due consideration.
Officials say that doctors were always consulted prior to taking such a step. It was only after the doctor gave the go-ahead that patients were allowed to stay out of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Such cases include patients who came a couple of days prior to their actual appointment dates or even elected to stay behind before going home, the health officials have revealed.
A spokeswoman fro the trust said that even then these occurrences were on the lower side. "We do have people staying outwith the hospital where it is clinically appropriate to do so. If the patient or their family isn't happy in any way we are not forcing people to do this," she added.
"It must be clinically appropriate and the doctor must be clear on that. The hospital is busy and there is some upgrading work going on at the moment so there is pressure on beds but this practice has been used for a while."
There was an uproar after it emerged that one cancer patient had put up in a Travel Inn before getting treatment.
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