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NHS Fife preparing to welcome new chief executive
John Wilson is set to take over from George Brechin as chief executive of NHS Fife. (...)
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Fears palliative care ward at Dunfermline's Queen Margaret Hospital could be axed to cut costs
The palliative care ward at a Fife hospital could be set to shut as NHS Fife seeks to find £13.5 million of savings, it has been revealed. (...)
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Councillor presses NHS Fife to cover cost of treatment for lung cancer patient
Fife's health chiefs have been urged to explain why they have refused to fund pioneering treatment for a local cancer patient. (...)
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93 'fit' patients die awaiting hospital release in Fife
Over 90 Fife patients passed fit to leave hospital died before they were able to do so last year, shocking new figures have revealed. (...)
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Bed-blocking crisis to be solved this month — Robison
Fife's bed-blocking crisis will be solved by the end of next month, MSPs have been told. (...)
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Fife Council and NHS Fife agree to ease bed-blocking crisis
NHS Fife has agreed to make up a shortfall in funding to try and ease the region's bed-blocking crisis — but will now have to look at ways to pay for it. (...)
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Fife Council urged to honour cash to fight health crisis
fife Council's leader of the opposition has repeated his call for the local authority to make good its offer of £250,000 to help tackle the bed blocking crisis within the region's hospitals. (...)
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United front on Fife's bed-blocking crisis
Leaders of Fife's health board and council seemed to bury the hatchet on Friday night by displaying a united front on tackling the region's bed blocking crisis. (...)
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Council blamed as NHS Fife being run ragged
Fife's health service is being pushed to breaking point because Fife Council is "failing in its responsibility" to get people out of hospital. (...)
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'Bed blocking' in Fife hospitals prompts calls for investigation
Two Fife councillors have called for an investigation after revelations that bed blocking in the region's hospitals is the worst in Scotland. (...)
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NHS Fife chiefs' annual review performance criticised
NHS FIFE has been accused of coming up with "weak" answers to health secretary Nicola Sturgeon's questions during its annual review on Tuesday. (...)
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NHS Fife management blamed for crisis
Senior management at NHS Fife are to blame for the shortage of junior doctors that has hit hospital services in Kirkcaldy, a leading health campaigner has claimed. (...)
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NHS Fife defends 'important' media staff spending
NHS Fife has defended its expenditure on press officers after it was revealed the health board spent £210,000 on communications staff last year. (...)
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Kirkcaldy hospital staff fear for their jobs
Worried staff at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy have been confiding in Fife councillor and health campaigner Andrew Rodger about their concerns, after NHS Fife admitted ward 13 will shut its doors for good next month. (...)
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Ward 13 at Victoria Hospital to close — despite previous assurances
NHS Fife has announced the closure of a ward at Kirkcaldy's Victoria Hospital — three months to the day since assuring the public it would remain open. (...)
Voting first for Fife's health board elections
Fife students were the first to hear how they can now directly help shape the future of health services in the region. (...)
More on: Fife | Carnegie College | Nicola Sturgeon | Scotland | Dunfermline
Ward will not close, Fife councillor told
A Fife independent councillor has been given personal assurances by the chairman of NHS Fife that ward 13 at Kirkcaldy’s Victoria Hospital will not be closing. (...)
More on: NHS Fife | Fife | Andrew Rodger | Jim McGoldrick | Kirkcaldy
Health chiefs deny Kirkcaldy ward closure is decided
Health chiefs in Fife have categorically denied that a decision to close a ward at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy has been taken amid continued speculation about the move. (...)
More on: Kirkcaldy | Dunfermline | Andrew Rodger | Jim McGoldrick | NHS Fife
