Scots nurse working on NHS frontline on mission to comfort palliative patients by knitting

Scottish Government of “spitting” on her profession by paying dental hygienists, optometrists and doctors five times more for giving vaccinations.Jane McCallum has criticised a deal struck by ministers in November which allows NHS boards to give contractors £230 per three-and-a-half-hour shift – the equivalent of £66 per hour – at inoculation centres.General practice nurses, meanwhile, are receiving as little as £13 an hour to do exactly the same job while often having to train the rookie

car was stolen and torched.Lisa Harrison, 23, and Daniel Thomson, 23, were woken by cops yesterday morning to be told that their brand new Jeep Compas had been found burnt out in a field two miles from their Dundee home.

dementia patientbackwards on a chair.Alison Frew denied seeing the shocking incident in March 2019 but two witnesses at Strathburn Lodge, Glenrothes, Fife, said she was in the dining room area at the time.The 57-year-old also failed to report the abuse to senior management which would have resulted in a probe being launched.A hearing in front of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard that the vile unnamed carer was involved in a second incident with the same ‘bruised’ resident just days

nurses, optometrists and pharmacists will be tested along with cleaners and receptionists.Lateral flow tests, which provide quicker results but are considered to be less sensitive, will be dispensed to primary care facilities to allow for twice-weekly testing.The expansion was announced by the First Minister earlier this month, with testing reaching Scottish Ambulance Service call handlers and hospice staff this week.SNP public health minister Mairi Gougeon said today: “Since December 2020,

Sydney Devine has released a new song in tribute to the NHS while he fights a serious mystery illness in hospital.Sydney, 81, was rushed to Ayr Hospital by ambulance almost three weeks ago after falling ill at home.He is still seriously unwell with the chest and lung condition, which doctors have been struggling to diagnose.

cat stranded in freezing conditions when the fire service and SSPCA were unable to help.An Aberdeen woman found the cat in a tree but was devastated when no one could help and had to leave the pet stranded around 1am this morning.But when Lisa Burnett woke up she was delighted to find that three men had come to the cats rescue and safely taken it down.The animal lover said she was in tears when she had to leave the cat outside in -7 degrees after trying to entice it down for five hours.She told

Ayrshire man have appealed for information on his whereabouts as it nears eight weeks since his disappearance. Jackson Mason was last seen between 4pm and 4.30pm on Saturday, December 19 near the Fenwick Hotel in East Ayrshire – close to the M77.

coronavirus has been described as a “true gentleman” by heartbroken colleagues.Herminio Abalos, a married dad-of-three from Dundee, is understood to have died last week after being admitted to hospital at the end of January.Known to friends as Meng, the 54-year-old worked as a self employed senior nurse in various care homes in the two decades since he moved to Scotland from the Philippines.The dad was admitted to Ninewells Hospital’s high dependency ward and battled the virus for two weeks,

NHS workers free accommodation during the cold snap.Owners of the Beveridge Park Hotel, in Fife, are welcoming doctors and nurses who can’t travel during the arctic weather.Last night over a dozen members of staff from the Victoria Hospital, in Kirkcaldy, took up the generous offer.A similar number are expected to take up the offer tonight.An employee at the hotel said the manager was doing his “good deed” for the hard working NHS workers.He explained that most of the medics had travelled from

Crosshouse Hospital by her knife-wielding ex-husband.Emma Robertson Coupland lost her life after being ‘knifed’ by deranged Steven Robertson as she left work in Kilmarnock on Thursday night.The 39-year-old’s daughter, Nicole Anderson, 24, was also killed just 20 minutes later after the 40-year-old blade fiend attacked her near her work on Portland Street.The maniac then sped away from the scene before crashing into a tree 12 miles away where he was pronounced dead at the scene.John Burns, chief

Covid ­powers by ­bursting into a terrified couple’s ­bedroom and hurling a pet dog out of the way.Defence lawyer Aamer Anwar – who is part of a watchdog group monitoring the use of ­temporary coronavirus laws – has called the late-night raid the “worst incident to date”.Chef Cameron Meechan, 26, claims he and girlfriend Danielle McHugh were in bed watching Netflix when about 10 police officers broke the door off its hinges and wrestled him to the ground.During the incident – ­understood to have

hospital.The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) this week probed the actions of Michael McCabe while working at Dundee's Ninewells hospital.McCabe has admitted to a string of failings including not giving injections to patients, not checking prescriptions when giving drugs and giving one patient an extra 30 minutes on a dialysis machine.Tinzaparin, used for deep vein thrombosis, was given by McCabe to a patient when it had already been administered.A report was prepared by the NMC after the

Covid ward. Amanda Narsapur was tending to coronavirus patients in Hairmyres Hospital when the callous thieves pinched her Ford Fiesta ST on Wednesday February 3.  The lifesaving theatre recovery nurse finished up a difficult shift and was desperate to get to home when she discovered her car had been taken.

direct to your inbox A nurse in a coronavirus ward at a hospital in Scotland said patients had told her they did not believe the virus was real.

coronavirus ward has said patients told her they did not believe the virus was real.Senior charge nurse Rosario Walshe leads the team at Ward A31 at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, near Falkirk, and said there has been a “huge spike” in cases recently.The 32-bed Covid-19 ward has every bed taken up as hospital referrals have doubled since the first wave.Rosario believes a combination of family gatherings at Christmas, people ignoring guidelines and the rapidly-spreading variant is behind

coronavirus vaccine scammer after visiting a Scots pensioner to offer the jab. There was concern in the Dumfries community after a woman showed up to administer the vaccination in the Heathall area yesterday.

coronavirus rules. Catherine Calderwood stepped down from the £120,000 a year role last April amid controversy over visiting her second home during the early stages of the pandemic.

NHS staff after they saved her baby daughter's life amid a choking fit. Little Darcie was rushed to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary for children by ambulance last Friday.

Edinburgh nurse and “devoted mummy” after she died with coronavirus.Naggayi Angella lost her life after contracting Covid-19 and going into a coma.The nursing student, originally from Uganda, had been studying at Edinburgh Napier University and her children have been left with no other family in the UK.Naggayi has also been working in community care to support her two children, Annmarie Yiga, 12, and John Jeremiah Mugisha, aged eight.