abstract: Team working: emergency care staff in Glasgow earned the praise of first minister Jack McConnell last month following an explosion in a plastics factory that claimed nine lives. Mr McConnell said that their response to the tragedy was a 'clear demonstration of the NHS at its very best'. The city's main emergency departments - at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the Southern General Hospital, the Victoria Infirmary and the Western Infirmary - were all involved as well as the smaller casualty unit at Stobhill Hospital. Clinical nurse manager in A&E at the Western Infirmary Gerry Wright (pictured inset) said: 'There was very specific triage at the scene. It worked excellently. The message that came out of it was that everyone knew their role.'