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Ambulances, waiting times and MRSA: how UK nations have fared under devolution
By Jennifer Dixon, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Health and healthcare policy have been a matter for the separate administrations in Scotland, Wales...
Alcohol: Ban on Multi-buy Promotions Works
Offers like these are banned in Scotland The Scottish Parliament passed the Alcohol Act in October 2011. A key part of the legislation was a...
Doctors vote to take industrial action over pensions
So, much to the surprise of some, BMA members have voted to strike. In a pretty good turnout as these things go, doctors have...
Health and social care – all in this together?
So we’re having another go at integrating health and social care – about time too: it’s been a good eight years since LHCCs transformed...
Should we pity hospitals when an inspector calls?
You’ve got to feel a bit sorry for Glasgow’s Western Infirmary. Last week the hospital was in the news for all the wrong reasons...
Could Canada help Scotland on minimum pricing for alcohol?
Today the Scottish parliament’s health committee is due to start hearing evidence on the Alcohol (Minimum Pricing) (Scotland) Bill. We’ve been here before, of...
The BMJ goes to Borsetshire – a health check for The Archers
For a certain group of people – a community, if you will – this time last year was one of anxious anticipation. No, not...
A convent truth? New research advises nuns to go on the pill
Is the Lancet really trying to wind up the Pope just as he approaches one of his busiest times of the year? The venerable...
Imagine if Loch Lomond was Loch Loo-mond: World Toilet Day
A shocking new image reveals how one Scotland's most cherished bodies of water would look if we had to endure the same sanitary conditions...
