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SNP Health Secretary said people should think twice before calling 999 for a paramedic due to the current pressures on the NHS. While he pledged any additional cash that could be found would be spent trying to ease the pressure on the health service, the Health Secretary conceded it "will be a challenging autumn and winter".In light of that, he said people should consider whether it is "absolutely critical" for them to call for an ambulance.
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An IT executive who poured liquid outside his neighbour's door in an "irrational" response to treading in a dog poo has been fined £320.
15 minutes to gather our thoughts, control approved and then I think it was about three minutes later they gave us a shout. “That same day, we also worked about two-and-a-half hours over our finish time.
eleven-year-old Evie Collie after she slipped down a steep hill and suffered critical injuries. The 15-year-old from Aberdeen called 999 for help and stayed with Evie until her parents arrived to comfort her.
NHS Scotland staff are working "way beyond" their contracted hours and are struggling to provide quality services, a union has warned. Unison has written to Health Secretary Humza Yousaf to raise a number of concerns around staff welfare.
assaulting teenage schoolgirls with his drumsticks, subjecting a sixth-form girl to sex-talk, and engaging in a months-long "illicit affair" with a 17-year-old girl pupil. James Clark, a former cowhand who joined the services when he was 20 and rose to be chief instructor for pipes and drums for the entire British Army, had taught drumming at the "traditional" Perthshire school since 2012.
fight on Saturday in a bid to damage their business. Society in Kirkcaldy today issued a public statement apologising to customers for the facilities but stated they fell victim to three "dangerous and cowardly" attacks.
bus route have been halted after yobs attacked drivers and passengers. McGill's chiefs have pulled the 752/26A through Love Street in Paisley after a series of incidents in the past week.
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town after an ambulance was involved in a crash. Police and fire crews were called to Wemyss Bay Road, just off the A78 in Wemyss Bay, Inverclyde on Tuesday afternoon.
Nicola Sturgeon announced earlier this week that she was calling in the Army to help deal with the ambulance crisis as pressure mounts on the service.
the Army being called in to help. It can be revealed that up to seven key officials with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) were operating the business at an executive office next to Glasgow Airport – which also houses the crucial mobile Covid testing hub where they work.
Scottish Government suggesting they are meeting targets. Former nurse Liz Barrie, whose pain is so bad she has contemplated taking her own life, accused health ministers of creating “sham” statistics by failing to reveal the true extent of the scandal.
Ambulance Service, also said military emergency drivers and logistics staff could become available. Patients are facing massive delays following a surge in calls to 999 handlers and ambulances stacking up outside A+E departments while they wait to transfer the sick.The Daily Record has been at the forefront of exposing the problems in the emergency service.
First Minister faced tough questions from MSPs in the Scottish Parliament over the current situation. The crisis comes as the NHS attempts to recover from being hit hard by the covid pandemic with many services struggling to cope with the virus and normal health concerns.
Homeless Project Scotland were packing up at the charity's soup kitchen on Argyle Sreet on Wednesday night when they saw the man collapse. The trained volunteers suspected the man was suffering from an overdose and administered naloxone - a medicine that works to reverse an opioid overdose.
pressure points in the service - an action already taken in parts of England.The SNP leader spoke out following reports that a frail pensioner found collapsed at his home in Glasgow died following a 40-hour wait for an ambulance.Relatives of Gerard Brown, 65, said they had been told the delay cost the former engineer his life.
SNP conference, the First Minister said she would lay out her revised case “openly and honestly” and repeated her call for indyref2.She said: “Nothing will fall into our laps.
paramedics are calling for immediate action to end the growing ambulance crisis. The move comes after we highlighted last week how the average waiting time for an ambulance had soared to six hours – with many patients experiencing waits almost four times that long.
Swinney is set to tell SNP members that Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are attempting to “dismantle devolution” and will slam the “muscular unionism” of the UK Conservative government.