they lacked traction with the public. What people noticed was the dripping roast saga of the ferries, the futile attempts to take legal action against Westminster, the worsening NHS waiting times, poorer PISA education ratings, the lack of affordable housing...
We find ourselves struggling to maximise the efficiency of overstretched resources which has left us facing increased patient waiting times and an overall lower public opinion of the service.1 We are the future of the radiography workforce in Scotland. We graduate aware of the drivers and barriers...
One of Scotland's most senior health officials has intervened to ensure NHS Tayside scraps plans to quietly scale back surgery in a bid to mask its own financial difficulties. ByDerek Healey Prince William was given chance to hit Mardi Gras Dundee dancefloor during ‘happy’ St Andrews student...
No. It should be repentance, because 4th July was inevitable given how the Sturgeon/Swinney era misled the movement, lost its common sense in government, promoted marginal issues as national priorities while the real priorities of the people such as education, housing, NHS, infrastructure, were ...
From there, it was a short step when the Covid pandemic hit for Health Secretary Matt Hancock to announce in May 2020, that Harding was to be put in charge of the “track, test and trace” programme. Renamed “NHS Test and Trace”, this would prove to be as big a white elephant an...
For example, the launch of the Framework for Mental Health Services in Scotland in 1997 (Scottish Office) needs to be set in the context of the NHS and local authority changes happening around that time. I work in the Scottish Borders, a rural area with a scattered population of 106 000....
NHS at risk, as Audit Scotland highlighted in its overview of NHS finances published in October 2014. And these financial pressures are ongoing: NHS24, NHS Highland and NHS Orkney have all had to resort to emergency Scottish Government funding in order to avoid an overspend this year. And an...