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UK's first drug consumption room ready to open its doors
The £2.3m facility in Glasgow, known as the Thistle, will allow users to inject illegal substances without fear of prosecution.
Pandemic 'exacerbated NHS struggle to meet demand'
NHS Scotland must treat at least 20% more non-emergency hospital cases over the next three years to eliminate the backlog ...
Dear NHS, you can stuff ‘Petey the Pengiun’ – we don’t need your ‘fun’ advice
Just when you thought that the public health advice on coping with cold weather couldn’t get any more absurd, along comes ...
SNP’s ‘fix rooms’ could be made exempt from smoking ban so users can inhale crack
Swinney praises Glasgow centre as ‘first of its kind’ while critics say it ‘does nothing to address root causes of addiction’ ...
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Transforming staff travel at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde through the Cycle Access Fund
With support from Cycling UK’s Cycle Access Fund, NHSGGC acquired an e-cargo bike to transform how the Active Travel Team ...
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Four in 10 registered Scots cannot access their dentist
Almost 40% of Scottish people who are registered with a dentist have not had an appointment in two years according to Public ...
BBC star dies from influenza A aged 56 after being put into coma
A BBC star who appeared on a Johathan Ross show has died from a flu aged 56. Kerry Wilson died on January 3 after being put ...
UK's first taxpayer-funded consumption room for illegal drugs set to open
The UK's first injecting room where drug addicts can take heroin and cocaine under NHS supervision is due to open in Scotland. Sky's Connor Gillies got first access to the facility in Glasgow to see ...
Rate of people waiting longer than four hours in Dumfries and Galloway A&E hits record high
New figures show that nearly 1,000 patients waited more than four hours to be admitted, transferred or discharged in November ...
One million NHS Scotland waiting list backlog projections branded ‘terrifying’
The analysis produced by the University of Edinburgh has revealed the full scale of what it would take to clear the Covid-19 ...
Inside the UK's first drugs 'consumption room' where addicts can 'safely' use heroin and cocaine while under 'legal supervision'
The centre, the first in the UK, is aimed at ensuring addicts have medical back-up on hand when they take class A drugs, ...
In the UK, Scottish independence and Irish reunification have lost their appeal
NEWS ANALYSIS. On December 1, the Irish rejected the country's pro-reunification party in the parliamentary elections. The ...