Argyll role in adoption of successful Flying Doctor service
As Health Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday, the Scottish Government is to establish the successful ‘Flying Doctor’ pilot project – the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS), to give it...
View ArticleWhyte & Mackay apologises for misleading argument on minimum pricing
Scotch whisky firm, Whyte & Mackay has had to apologise for presenting a misleading case in its argument against the Scottish Government’s plan to introduce minimum pricing per unit of alcohol.The...
View ArticleHealth Secretary gives NHS clearance to proceed on Mull and Iona Progressive...
In very good news for Mull and Iona and for the island construction workers threatened with redundancy, Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, has given clearance to NHS Scotland to proceed with the...
View ArticleAction on Dunoon and Oban care homes threatened with Argus Care Group going...
Aware of the widespread concern in Scotland at the meltdown of the care homes industry and with the latest collapse seeing the Argus Care Group going into formal administration yesterday, Health...
View Article£200 million investment in health in Scotland
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon is today marking the beginning of building work on a series of major new community health projects across Scotland worth £200 million.Ms Sturgeon is visiting the site...
View ArticleNo 10 experiment proves people want content not presentation
No 10 may have been disappointed at the backfiring of a plan to make Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley see the need to become a slicker performer on the box – but the outcome is a very reassuring...
View ArticleWas no Scottiish University capable of doing the mathematical model on the...
Deputy First Minister and Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon has just said on Newsnight Scotland that the Scottish Government got Sheffield University to carry out a mathematical modelling exercise...
View ArticleHealth Minister courageous in possible lower abortion limit in Scotland
Alex Neil MSP, now Cabinet Secretary for Health, is reported today as saying that, speaking personally, he feels that there is a case for a reduction in the upper time limit for abortions.We have just...
View ArticleJackie Baillie’s parliamentary question reveals serious rate of bullying in...
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie has used a parliamentary question to extract from Health Secretary, Alex Neil, the figures on bullying within the NHS.Figures released in his answer show the unacceptable...
View ArticleJackie Baillie knocks another seven bells from out of control Scottish NHS
In the latest of a series of strong criticisms of Scotland’s failing NHS, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister and local MSP, Jackie Baillie has been in action over the latest mess at NHS...
View ArticleBaillie says NHS Scotland being run hand to mouth, without strategic oversight
Scottish Labour has revealed the growing costs to the NHS of the increase in the number of doctors and nurses working beyond their contractual hours.In 2011-12, doctors worked almost 80,000 hours...
View ArticleInappropriate government response to Audit Scotland report on NHS waiting...
Audit Scotland has published the findings of its audit of the management of patients on waiting lists at NHS boards today, 21st February.Its essential message is that measuring the meeting of targets...
View ArticleWhat our local and regional MSPs have been saying this week
It’s been quite a lively week, with a variety of MSPs concerned with Argyll and Bute and with its hinterlands, commenting on a variety of matters of interest to Argyll and to Scotland.There are six...
View ArticleBaillie attacks government on NHS ‘cover up culture’
Local MSP Jackie Baillie has attacked what she has called the ‘cover up culture’ in the NHS on which she sees the Scottish Government as having a permissive stance.Ms Baillie’s party, Scottish Labour,...
View ArticleBaillie exposes sham of ‘new’ Emergency Care Fund
Following disturbing revelations of poor quality care in some of Scotland’s hospitals and in anticipation of the worst A&E waiting times since 2007, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Alex Neil, has...
View ArticleKidneys now off the PR menu for Health Secretary
It must have looked like a good wheeze to take the media focus off the fiddled waiting time statistics and with the worst waiting times for A&E since 2007 about to be published.Health Secretary,...
View ArticleWhat is the agenda at Campbeltown Hospital as McGrigor and Kelly express...
Highlands & Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor and South Kintyre Councillor, Donald Kelly, continue to be concerned about NHS Highland’s plans to reduce significantly the number of inpatient beds at...
View ArticleConfidential phone line for NHS staff goes live 2nd April: 0800 008 6112
A free, confidential phone line for NHS staff who wish to raise any concerns about practices in NHS Scotland will go live tomorrow [2nd April 2013]. It is 0800 008 6112.The National Confidential Alert...
View ArticleThe return of the undead
This is a week where the dead and the undead are colonising the headlines.This morning’s nationals 12th April] were full of sonorous warnings to Labour Leader, Ed Milliband from characters from the...
View ArticleNo listening to concerns on Campbeltown methadone clinic plans as McGrigor...
[Update below] There was a full house of 200 last night, 13th May, for a public meeting in Campbeltown, organised by the Community Council on bed reductions at Campbeltown Hospital and on proposals for...
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