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Ghosts of SNP health secretaries past cast shadow over Swinney’s NHS reforms
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (521+ words) This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Health secretaries of the past, freed from the shackles of actually running Scotland’s NHS, have delivered their warnings to John Swinney over what may prove to be one of…...
‘Fools gold’: Matheson says NHS board cuts alone won’t improve patient outcomes
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (785+ words) Former health secretary Michael Matheson has warned that believing the decision to cut Scotland’s 14 health boards to two will improve outcomes for patients alone is “fools gold”. Mr Matheson said changing the structure of NHS Scotland could help wider reform…...
'Plan to cut NHS health boards is a cruel SNP fantasy"
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1144+ words) Please, can anyone stop John Swinney and his SNP Government from driving us collectively into the poorhouse of Europe? Despite the slender majority at Holyrood, we can’t afford to have this FM and his barren cabinet coming up with any…...
Social care must not be swallowed up by NHS under reform plans, John Swinney warned
1+ week, 4+ day ago (937+ words) John Swinney has been warned social care risks being swallowed up by the NHS after care leaders revealed they received no advance notice of the plans. The First Minister announced in his Programme for Government a three-month period of intense…...
Swinney guarantees no NHS redundancies but says public sector job losses inevitable
1+ week, 5+ day ago (871+ words) The First Minister said there would be no compulsory redundancies in the NHS merger (Image: NQ)i> John Swinney has guaranteed there will be no compulsory NHS redundancies, even as he confirmed that wider public sector job cuts were "inevitable…...
Scotland split into two under John Swinney's major NHS shake-up
1+ week, 6+ day ago (944+ words) Scotland’s regional health boards are expected to be slashed from 14 to two under John Swinney’s ambitious reform plans. The Herald understands the merger is part of the First Minister’s Programme for Government, with a number of health organisations expecting crunch…...
John Swinney's NHS health board shake-up could work. But there's a danger
2+ week, 45+ min ago (719+ words) This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Scotland’s NHS is under pressure. Demand is rising, waiting lists remain stubbornly high and health boards are wrestling with significant financial deficits. The model that delivered healthcare a generation…...
‘Beggars belief’: Major energy firm fined £267,000 over five Fife gas leaks
2+ week, 5+ day ago (961+ words) One of the world's biggest oil and gas companies has been fined £267,000 after five leaks of extremely flammable hydrocarbons at its Fife Ethylene Plant, including one which continued for four months before safety inspectors intervened. The Health and Safety Executive…...
Rewilding estate hosts 'pioneering' research into nature and mental health
3+ week, 5+ day ago (551+ words) Rural school pupils visiting a Scottish conservation charity's rewilding estate near Loch Ness have been helping shape a "pioneering" nature-based research programme to boost young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Working alongside researchers from the University of South Wales (USW),…...
Reform DWP cuts could see PIP and Universal Credit health benefits scrapped
4+ week, 1+ day ago (653+ words) Reform UK would abolish PIP and the health element of Universal Credit for working-age adults under plans to slash the welfare bill by £50billion. The party says almost three million people could see their disability and sickness payments withdrawn or modified…...