Scotland's first field hospital set up to cope with a sudden influx of coronavirus patients is to start seeing patients in July as part of an NHS restart.
The make-shift site cost around £38 million and was set up quickly to cope with up to 300 patients at the peak of the pandemic.
Fortunately, The Glasgow super hospital set up at the SEC centre in April was never used for coronavirus patients, but now it will be used to help the NHS recover.
The huge field hospital will now be used for staff training, teaching and examinations with social distancing easy to implement due to its huge size.
At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS cancelled most outpatients appointments and referrals.
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Now the makeshift hospital will also be used to take on some of the backlog of orthopaedic outpatient consultations.
The process will be part of a trial run to determine if the super-hospital could be used to provide further services which would kick start the NHS.
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said: "As we begin to resume some paused NHS services safely, carefully and in a series of stages, this national hospital will play an important role in helping our NHS recover by providing planned healthcare for non-Covid outpatients.
"It will also ensure the sustainability of our NHS workforce as the clinical setting, alongside the ability to maintain physical distancing, will allow undergraduates and postgraduates to carry out training, teaching and examinations, and support training for the wider health and social care workforce in Scotland.
"By continuing to follow the clear public health advice, we can continue to suppress this virus in Scotland."
Chief nursing officer Fiona McQueen said: "The NHS Louisa Jordan has not been required to treat Covid-19 patients as we have been able to retain capacity in NHS Scotland thanks to our continued collective effort to tackle this pandemic.
"Should it be required, all training and planned non-Covid healthcare will be stopped and the hospital will be ready to accept Covid-19 patients at a few days' notice."
