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Scottish Health Archive
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SNP lying about Scottish health – we have the documentary evidence. UPDATED
Posted on May 1, 2009 | 12 CommentsDeveloping Story……. The SNP government in the guise of a press release from Public Health Minister Shona Robison have this week lied to the Scottish public about the current state... -
For Foulkes Sake – Yer a publicity seeking twat
Posted on January 17, 2008 | 1 CommentDrunk with his daughter and mother? Being totally behind the Evening News’ campaign to let the Scottish Government know that the citizens of Edinburgh want them to back off rather... -
New Labour’s NHS – them and us
Posted on July 20, 2006 | No CommentsRecently in Edinburgh, the Chancellor Gordon Brown had his latest baby James Fraser. Congratulations Just to show how much faith he puts in the NHS, once again Gordon Brown had... -
Move the goalposts II – The Consultants
Posted on April 2, 2006 | No Comments600 additional consultants were needed urgently in the NHS, and the Labour and Lib Dem rulers at Follyrood decided to that they would be recruited and in place by 2006. ... -
MSPs make money from Tobacco
Posted on March 27, 2006 | No CommentsThe MSPs who voted overwhelmingly to ban smoking in public places forgot to tell us that their pensions are dependent on us smoking more. It was revealed that The Holyrood... -
Human Guinea-Pig Tests
Posted on June 26, 2005 | No CommentsAn Edinburgh laboratory has been criticised by an influential US senator for intentionally exposing volunteers to harmful pesticides. Inveresk laboratories was named along with other testing facilities in a new... -
Mine’s a Double – what a boob!
Posted on May 10, 2005 | No CommentsSo what have the smart people in the Scottish Executive come up with now. A t-shirt with an instruction manual. The pink t-shirts for women which have “Mine’s a double”... -
Another £30m into the hole that is ERI
Posted on May 5, 2005 | No CommentsHaving lost many hospitals in the City, and remembering will be paying £1.26 billion for the understaffed, undercleaned and undersized new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI) to Consort Healthcare look out... -
The nightmare that is NHS 24
Posted on April 21, 2005 | No CommentsMembers of the Scottish Local Medical Committee have yet again raised concerns that NHS 24 is putting patients at risk as it struggles to find enough staff to deal with... -
England could learn from Scotland’s failures.
Posted on April 19, 2005 | No CommentsNot my words. Those are the words of Tory Bliar. An election row has broken out about the different ways Labour runs the health service north and south of the... -
North-south divide in manifesto
Posted on April 15, 2005 | No CommentsLabour were thrown into damage-limitation mode yesterday when their manifesto for Scotland was derailed by strange goings on in the figures department for NHS waiting lists. Our dodgy first minister,... -
MRSA hits new record levels in Scotland
Posted on April 13, 2005 | No CommentsOur elected Scottish ministers have failed to tackle the MRSA crisis according to Dr. John Cowan who is a co-author of the MRSA Report. He reports that hospital infection could be causing 400 deaths a year in Scotland. That put's the blood of Scots on the hands of our ministers and first minister. -
Patient’s friends and familes ripped off at ERI
Posted on April 11, 2005 | No CommentsTo phone Australia from Edinburgh it costs 22p a minute using the very expensive BT phone plan. However, if you have a friend or member of your family in Hospital in Edinburgh it will cost you 49p a minute to call them. Patients who make outgoing calls from the hospital have to pay £3 for a 30-minute call, six times the cost of a similar call using a BT payphone. -
Executive’s PE targets have failed
Posted on April 3, 2005 | No CommentsWhen our children are getting heavier and heavier through among other things, lack of exercise, our leaders are again failing us: “Peter Peacock, the education minister, has admitted the Executive... -
Postcode lottery for Scotland’s childless couples
Posted on April 2, 2005 | No CommentsThe Scotsman run a story today showing how it is a postcode lottery in Scotland for childless couples who are seeking IVF treatment. “A major investigation by The Scotsman has... -
Smoke ban threat to Labour campaign
Posted on March 28, 2005 | No CommentsIt looks like the first vote on the Scotland-wide smoking ban may have an effect on the general election. “MSPs are scheduled to vote on the Bill to bring in... -
Craic Of Doom
Posted on March 22, 2005 | No CommentsComing to a city near you. With the government enforced smoking ban coming up, and the Frist Ministeer touting Ireland as the way to go…….. “Irish pub bosses say falling... -
NHS complaints body axed
Posted on March 21, 2005 | No CommentsLothian Health Council, which fights for patients’ rights on health issues and supports them in making complaints, will cease to exist in two weeks under sweeping reforms to the NHS... -
Five year wait for fertility treatment
Posted on March 21, 2005 | No CommentsIt is time to donate: The situation was now so bad that many people faced the difficult task of finding a donor from among their friends. “In a lot of...