BAILLIE BACKS MOVE TO HELP QUIT SMOKING
MSP Jackie Baillie has backed a campaign to help smokers kick the habit. The Dumbarton politician is throwing her support behind ASH Scotland’s Quit and Win campaign, in the wake of national No Smoking Day. The national organisation marked the event last week, by urging people across Scotland to quit tobacco and boost their health, […]
BAILLIE WARNS WOMEN ARE BEING “LEFT IN LIMBO FOR YEARS” AS FOUR-YEAR HYSTERECTOMY WAITS REVEALED
MSP Jackie Baillie has accused the SNP of “risking women’s health” after new figures revealed waits of up to four years for surgery. The Dumbarton politician said women’s health is being neglected as waits for Hysterectomies rocket. New figures obtained by Scottish Labour have shown that a patient in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde […]
BAILLIE BACKS CAMPAIGN TO IMPROVE CANCER SURVIVAL
MSP Jackie Baillie is supporting efforts to save lives and boost research into less survivable cancers. The Dumbarton politician has given her backing to the campaign by the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT), to invest in research and improve the chances of survival for sufferers of cancers of the brain, liver, lung, oesophagus, pancreas or […]
BAILLIE ISSUES CRITICAL WARNING OVER NATION’S NHS
MSP Jackie Baillie has warned that Scotland’s NHS faces meltdown under SNP control. The politician says there are just six months left to save the service. Jackie, Scottish Labour’s Spokesperson for Health, warned that the nation’s healthcare system “does not have a third decade to lose to SNP failure”. Her comments come six months out […]
BAILLIE RESPONDS TO DRUG DEATHS TOLL
MSP Jackie Baillie has said her thoughts are with families affected by Scotland’s drug death toll. The politician spoke out after new figures, published last week, showed drug deaths in Scotland had fallen marginally – but at 1,017 deaths in the last year, remain the highest in Europe. Data also reveals that the number of […]
DEMAND FOR ACTION ON AMBULANCE DELAYS
Scotland’s Health Minister faced a showdown with MSP Jackie Baillie in the Holyrood chamber recently. The Dumbarton politician demanded that Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Neil Gray, update the chamber on action taken to reduce the wait for ambulances outside hospitals. It comes as data reveals that ambulances are still racking up long […]
ANGER OVER HOSPITAL BUS CHANGES
MSP Jackie Baillie is at loggerheads with NHS bosses over the axing of a hospital bus link. Jackie wrote to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde chief, Professor Jann Gardner, after news broke that the service 340 will end on June 28th. The politician urged the board to reconsider and called for a meeting with Professor […]
Baillie welcomes new role for GPs in flu vaccine delivery
News that GPs in NHS Highland will once again carry out routine vaccinations has been welcomed, as the SNP Government was accused of “dropping the ball” on flu vaccinations. MSP Jackie Baillie, who urged the Scottish Government to decentralise vaccination programmes under NHS Highland control, has backed the change. It comes after GPs operating within […]
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT PLAYING “RUSSIAN ROULETTE” WITH PATIENTS’ LIVES
The Scottish Government has been accused of playing “Russian Roulette” with the lives of A&E patients as waits rocket. Paisley’s A&E department notched up the fifth worst performance in Scotland this week, as dismal new figures were unveiled. Only 44.4 per cent of patients attending the Royal Alexandra Hospital’s emergency unit were treated in line […]
Baillie: Health board “plotting” over Vale Hospital
Services at the Vale of Leven Hospital are once again under threat, it is feared. The future of the site’s Minor Injuries service appears to be in doubt, as NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is accused of bringing in cuts “by the back door”. Fears are rife that the changes are being presented as a […]