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| Two A&E units 'should stay open' | Two A&E units 'should stay open' |
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| An independent panel of experts has suggested that Ayr and Monklands accident and emergency departments should stay open. | An independent panel of experts has suggested that Ayr and Monklands accident and emergency departments should stay open. |
| The panel was set up by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, after she reversed decisions to close the A&Es. | The panel was set up by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon, after she reversed decisions to close the A&Es. |
| The scrutiny panel said that the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire health boards failed to listen to the public. | The scrutiny panel said that the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire health boards failed to listen to the public. |
| It also said they failed to back up their plans with evidence or even reliable figures. | It also said they failed to back up their plans with evidence or even reliable figures. |
| Consultation exercises were biased, for example, by apportioning twice as much weight to the views of managers compared to the views of doctors. | Consultation exercises were biased, for example, by apportioning twice as much weight to the views of managers compared to the views of doctors. |
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| Now the health boards will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with new plans for their local hospitals. | Now the health boards will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with new plans for their local hospitals. |
| Plans to downgrade the A&E departments to minor injury units were approved by the last Scottish Labour administration in 2006. | |
| But when the SNP took over last May it told health boards to draw up newproposals and created a panel to scrutinise them. | |
| Both boards submitted proposals which were said to support schemes which still would cut emergency care. Ms Sturgeon said the independent panel reports "confirm the government's view" that the decisions to close the two units were "wrong". |