Tag: Scotland

IVF withheld from couples who smoke

COUPLES who smoke are to be denied IVF treatment by Scottish health chiefs. NHS Fife will be the first health board in Scotland to refuse...

Whooping cough numbers rise across Scotland

MEDICS are struggling with a 2000% increase in whooping cough cases. NHS Tayside has confirmed that almost 250 cases were reported between January and July...

Concern over future of police pipe bands

SCOTLAND’s police pipe bands could face the axe ahead of the move to a single police force next year. MSPs will lobby the new chief...

Taxpayers forced to pay more against “wayward prison officers”

PRISON bosses in Scotland will spend £2million pounds beefing up security – to stop their own staff smuggling in drugs and mobile phones. The Scottish...

NHS patients to be treated at private hospitals

THOUSANDS of NHS patients at Scotland’s second largest health board will be treated at private hospitals across the country - in a bid to...

Decline in entrepreneurial activity in Scotland halted

A RECENT study has revealed that the number of Scots who were considering starting up their own business in the next three years increased...

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