Tag: nhs scotland

Staff shortages at major hospital could pose risk to patients

Health

Deadline News Journalist - September 5, 2014

PATIENTS at a major Scottish hospital are at potentially “significant risk" as a result of staff shortages in accident and emergency. The standard of care...

Care evictions spark concerns of deepening NHS ‘crisis’

Scottish News

Guest - May 13, 2013

AN MSP has warned that a decision to close sheltered housing units for frail pensioners in Edinburgh will lead to a deepening "crisis" for...

A quarter of NHS staff in Scotland claim they have been bullied

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - May 12, 2013

NEARLY a quarter of NHS staff in Scotland claim they have been subject to bullying in the workplace. New figures, released under Freedom of Information,...

Dishonest staff con NHS out of millions

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - March 29, 2013

DISHONEST NHS staff were behind eight of the ten biggest frauds against the health service in Scotland over the past four years. NHS Scotland has...

Cancer patients wait months for treatment

Scottish News

Deadline News Journalist - December 2, 2012

SCOTTISH cancer patients have been forced to wait months for potentially life-saving treatment – because of staff and equipment shortages. Almost 1,200 seriously ill patients...