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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...

Doctor banned for a year after CV lies are uncovered

A DOCTOR who lied on his CV in a failed bid to get a job has been banned from the profession for a year. Oxford-educated...

Airport style check-ins for Edinburgh’s hospitals

AIRPORT-style check-ins machines are being installed at Edinburgh hospitals in a bid to speed up waiting times. The move will see people “check in” for...

Baby scans could cut abortion rates

WOMEN should be shown scans of their unborn child before having an abortion, claims the leader of Scotland’s Catholic Church. Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the Archbishop...

‘Ryan’s legacy helps NHS Bioengineer understand wheelchair users’ needs’

AN NHS Trainee Bioengineer is to gain first-hand experience of the lives of the disabled people he’ll be working with thanks to a partnership...

Lorna Baillie, the grandmother who ‘came back from the dead’

A WOMAN who was left for dead by medics following a massive heart attack astonished her family and doctors when she came back to...

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