Tag: doctor

Funding for improvements to GP practices

Business

Joe Hutchison - October 24, 2019

GP practices will receive more than £9 million of new funding to upgrade their premises and IT systems supporting better services for local communities. The...

Consultant vacancy figures show there are still “simply not enough doctors in our NHS”

Business

Joe Hutchison - September 3, 2019

Vacancies in the consultant workforce across Scotland’s NHS are increasing significantly, with a high number of posts also left unfilled for more than six...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Shapeshifters: Medicine, and the human behind it

Entertainment

Guest - August 13, 2018

BY BOB CUMMINS Gavin Francis, a physician in Edinburgh, writer and explorer shares insights from his past that have inspired his current book, Shapeshifters; on...

PREVIEW – If you want a prescription for humour, look no further. Check out doctor turned comedian Dr Kevin Jones

Festival Fringe

guest_deadline - July 10, 2018

By GEORGIE HARDIE A dark comedy stars Dr Kevin Jones: Telling the Wrong Man He Had Cancer and other Hilarious Stories. Jones takes the audience back...