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Hospital infection rates slashed

INFECTIONS in Scotland's hospitals have reduced by a third since 2006. Health Protection Scotland’s Point Prevalence Survey, which involved 13,558 patients, 844 wards and 75...

Snow-hit streets of Edinburgh are being cleared with military precision

IT started on the stroke of 11.30am with the kind of military efficiency you’d expect from the combined ranks of the Army,...

Scottish hospitals taking extra care when Pope visits

By Christine Lavelle HOSPITAL staff across central Scotland will be on high alert next month as Pope Benedict XVI visits the country. Fears over the Pontiff’s...

NHS efficiency bosses “need their heads examined”

By Rory Reynolds A PLAN to give nurses pedometers to monitor how far they walk every day has been blasted as “ hair brained” by...

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