Tag: GP

New services have been introduced to help find cancer sooner

Health

Maja Grantham - June 11, 2021

A new initiative to speed up cancer diagnosis and provide GPs with an alternative route to urgently refer patients has been launched. Three Early Cancer...

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...

“Women your age don’t get cancer”. What GP told patient now terminally ill at 35.

News

Deadline News Journalist - May 4, 2017

A YOUNG dressmaker has been diagnosed as terminally ill after a GP told her: "Women your age don't get cancer." Deanna Wilson found a rapidly-growing...

Mum of suicide teen wants law change to stop GPs prescribing to teens

In Brief

Kirsty Stewart - November 11, 2016

THE grieving mother of a 16-year-old suicide victim is campaigning for a ban on GPs handing powerful prescription drugs to youngsters without parental consent. Britney...

GP surgery posts open letter blaming government for “crisis” facing patients

Health

Deadline News Journalist - July 18, 2016

A GPs' surgery has published a searing open letter on its website, blaming the government and health officials for the "crisis" facing their patients. Parkgrove...

Scots doctor in blackmail case escapes punishment

In Brief

Peter Laing - November 1, 2012

A SCOTS doctor has escaped being struck off despite blackmailing his former girlfriend by threatening to reveal naked pictures of her. Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan,...

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