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'This question will not go away' — Margo MacDonald launches new bid to legalise assisted suicide
Scots could help terminally ill friends kill themselves under proposals outlined at Holyrood. (...)
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Perthshire GP fears industrial action if threat to doctors' pensions is not lifted
A prominent Tayside GP does not think doctors should pay more towards their pensions and work to the age of 68, and he hopes the Scottish Government will step in to avoid the issue leading to industrial action. (...)
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NHS still trying to measure how public sector strike will affect patients
More than 500 NHS Tayside patients will be told later this week of cancellations and disruptions to their appointments due to strike action next Wednesday. (...)
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BMA's call to ban smoking in cars wins support from NHS Fife
NHS FIFE has backed calls by the British Medical Association to ban people from smoking in their cars. (...)
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University union leader condemns kidney sale suggestion
A leading trade union has condemned comments made by a prominent academic at Dundee University, who suggested hard-up students be allowed to sell a kidney to help pay off their loans. (...)
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Councillor makes damning assessment of Fife's elected health board
A flagship project that saw members elected to a Scottish health board has been called a shambles. (...)
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Community health partnerships branded 'bureaucratic monoliths'
One of Scotland's top doctors has hit out at bureaucracy choking the health system after a "deeply disturbing" report from the country's spending watchdog. (...)
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BMA figure demands action on national medicine shortage
A national doctors' leader based in Perthshire has called on politicians to get round the table to discuss ways to tackle the shortage of vital medicines. (...)
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Henry McLeish's stance on minimum alcohol pricing — not an SNP endorsement
Former first minister Henry McLeish has angrily rejected suggestions he backed the SNP. (...)
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Doctors' leader urges ministers not to be blinded by new technology
A national doctors' leader based in Tayside said the telephone is "under-used" in surgeries and clinics. (...)
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Two more die in Scotland after contracting swine flu
Two people have died after contracting swine flu in Scotland over the last week. (...)
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Protesters at St Andrews University set out tuition fees demands
St Andrews students demonstrating against rising tuition fees have set out demands for the university at a rally. (...)
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90,000 UK diabetics forced to switch insulin medication
Over 1200 diabetic patients in Tayside and Fife are having to switch vital medication after a drug firm announced their current medication is being withdrawn. (...)
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Dr Finlay-style practices a thing of the past, says Blairgowrie GP
Dr Andrew Buist, a GP at Ardblair Surgery and deputy chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish GP committee, has said there is no going back to Dr Finlay-style general practice. (...)
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Medical association appoints deputy chairman from Ninewells Hospital
A Ninewells Hospital consultant anaesthetist, Dr Nikki Thompson, has been elected deputy chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Consultants' Committee. (...)
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National solution needed for Scottish A&E problems
Fixing the staffing problems that caused a crisis in Fife accident and emergency services will require a national solution, a new report by the country's public spending watchdog has claimed. (...)
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Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray asks for ‘honesty' on coming cuts
Frontline health services must be protected in the face of massive public sector spending cuts, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray has said. (...)
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Government accused of cuts naivety
The British Medical Association has told the Scottish Government it is "naive" to believe the NHS can be spared from public spending cuts. (...)
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Former Perth consultant tells of NHS 'climate of fear'
A respected former senior consultant from Perth Royal Infirmary has lifted the lid on the low morale and climate of fear which is threatening to rip apart the NHS. (...)
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Fife hospital deals a debt 'millstone'
The total cost of building and maintaining the new wing at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy will amount to £519 million, NHS Fife has revealed. (...)
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