PERMANENT A&E CRISIS RISKING LIVES
A&E departments in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are stuck in a permanent state of crisis, Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton has warned today as hundreds face dangerously long waits. New Public Health Scotland figures show that in the week ending 14 July 2024, almost 1 in 3 Scots waited more than the recommended 4 […]
BAILLIE RESPONDS TO “DAMNING” COVID INQUIRY FINDINGS
MSP Jackie Baillie has raised concerns around “endemic failings” in the pandemic response highlighted by Covid investigators. The UK Covid Inquiry has found that both the Westminster and Holyrood governments “failed their citizens” and let the population down by not properly planning for the crisis. Inquiry Chair, Baroness Hallett, has now called for crucial reform […]
Baillie hits out as under-pressure clinicians claim lack of Helensburgh clinics has led to a boom in STIs
Under-pressure GPs have told how they have witnessed a rise in STDs in Helensburgh since sexual health clinics were allowed to lapse in the area. They say they have been left struggling to take up the slack in sexual and women’s health without proper backing and do not even have a supply of free condoms […]
URGING CONSTITUENTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCES AS SCOTLAND’S COVID INQUIRY OPENS
Jackie Baillie is urging people from across Dumbarton, the Vale of Leven, Helensburgh and Lomond to give their views to Scotland’s Covid-19 Inquiry as it holds its first hearings. As part of the Inquiry, Let’s Be Heard is seeking the views of people who were living in Scotland between 1st January 2020 and 31st December 2022 and […]
ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO RELOCATE DUMBARTON HEALTH CENTRE TO HEART OF THE TOWN
Dumbarton councillor David McBridehas set out his ambition to see a new Dumbarton Health Centre relocated to the heart of the town centre. Both Councillor McBride along with his Labour colleagues Gurpreet Singh Johal and Dumbarton constituency MSP Jackie Baillie are urging members of the public, traders and people who work in the town to […]
ENCOURAGING CONSTITUENTS LIVING WITH EPILEPSY TO OPEN UP ABOUT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
The estimated 752 people living with epilepsy across the Dumbarton constituency are encouraged to open up about their mental health following concerns raised in a recent report published by a leading Scottish epilepsy charity. The report by Epilepsy Scotland has found that over half of people living with epilepsy who took part in a national […]
THANKING STAFF ON THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NHS
Jackie Baillie has given heartfelt thanks to local NHS staff as the health service marks its 75th anniversary. The National Health Service was founded on July 5th 1948 by the then Labour government under Minister for Health, Aneurin Bevan. Ms Baillie believes that the NHS is arguably Labour’s finest achievement but she and her Labour colleagues are […]
