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NHS Highland gets closer to waiting time targets for cancer cases
NHS Highland, the health authority responsible for Argyll and Bute, has reported that, between April and June 2008, over 95% of patients referred as urgent by their GP were treated within the target of...
View ArticleArgyll’s MSP, Jim Mather, spells out the consequences of the Scottish...
Argyll & Bute MSP, Jim Mather, says that the defeat of the Scottish Government’s Budget at Holyrood last night (28th January) could have a serious and immediate financial effect on communities,...
View ArticleUnreliable broadband costs Scots a fortune
The results of a survey conducted by price comparison website, uSwitch, shows that with the worst Internet connectivity in the developed world, what Scotland has is so unreliable that individuals are...
View ArticleCritical Care Audit Shows NHS under continuing pressure and cuts
The audit of critical care across Scotland in 2011, showed that:Lack of beds continues to prevent patients being discharged from critical care – with an increase in the levels of delays from High...
View ArticleWhat our local and regional MSPs have been saying this week
It’s been quite a lively week, with a variety of MSPs concerned with Argyll and Bute and with its hinterlands, commenting on a variety of matters of interest to Argyll and to Scotland.There are six...
View ArticleAuditor General discounts ‘IT problems’ in NHS waiting times data
Appearing before the Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit Committee, the Auditor General, Caroline Gardner, set aside the Scottish Government’s defence over the NHS waiting times scandal, which sought to...
View ArticleKidneys now off the PR menu for Health Secretary
It must have looked like a good wheeze to take the media focus off the fiddled waiting time statistics and with the worst waiting times for A&E since 2007 about to be published.Health Secretary,...
View ArticleBaillie says Royal Alexandra Hospital failed Waiting Times targets for three...
Local MSP, Jackie Baillie, has hit out at the Scottish Government after First Minister, Alex Salmond, played down A&E waiting time failures in the Scottish Parliament last week.This follows the...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute in leaked list of Conservative ‘non target’ seats
[Updated below 17.10 16th February] The Conservative party has been embarrassed by the leaking of a list of Westminster seats it considers to be ‘non -target’ seats in the coming General Elections.This...
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Baillie on latest figures for Royal Alexandra Hospital A&E waiting times
Commenting on the latest weekly figures for A&E waiting times at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, achieved after the department was put into Special Measures by the Scottish Government,...
View Article12 hour waits in A&E in Scotland increase by 300% in last year, with 8 hour...
The latest figures released by the Scottish Government show thousands of patients waited more than eight hours in accident and emergency departments last year.However, it is to be noted that the...
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