NHS Scotland looking for Scots to relocate to Orkney with salaries up to £56,000
At the moment, NHS Scotland is currently hiring a number of positions on Orkney — and it could be the perfect opportunity to ...
Scottish Tories demand statement from Neil Gray over chauffeured car rides to football matches
The Scottish Tories are demanding a Holyrood statement from Health Secretary Neil Gray over his use of ministerial cars to ...
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Dawn Chorus: Boost for Orkney wildlife, strange plants to eat and curious lodgings at the COP conference
Orkney RSPB It’s not all bad news in the world of nature conservation. Orkney’s wildlife, which includes several threatened ...
People on Attendance Allowance in Scotland due to move to new health benefit from early next year
People over State Pension age living in five council areas can now claim a new disability benefit which is set to replace Attendance Allowance in Scotland by the end of next year. Older people living ...
NHS staff told my parents I was in hospital – but I was safe at home in bed
NHS staff told a man’s parents their son was in hospital before realising they had got the wrong person. On Oct 19, Frazer ...
New benefit for people over State Pension age with health issues opens in five council areas
The benefit will become available in 13 more local authority areas in March next year before rolling out nationwide across Scotland by April, 2025. Pension Age Disability Benefit is for people over 66 ...
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Pensioners making a claim for new health benefit this month to receive bonus payment
Applications for Pension Age Disability Payment (PADP) are now being accepted in Argyll and Bute, Highland, Aberdeen City, Orkney and Shetland ... 10 most-claimed health conditions providing older ...
My worried parents got a call to say I was in hospital 800 miles away – but I was asleep in my bed
A MAN has criticised blundering hospital staff after they called his parents to say he had been admitted into their care almost 800 miles away. Frazer Edwards’ mum and dad, who live in ...
East Kent Hospitals Trust apologises after Canterbury man’s parents wrongly told he had been admitted to Margate’s QEQM Hospital
A man has criticised hospital staff after they called his parents to say he had been admitted into their care - when he was actually in bed at home.
Scots slam blundering hospital staff for falsely telling them son was ill in A&E
Frazer Edwards' mum and dad, who live in Orkney, were left worried sick when they were telephoned late at night by a medic in Kent.
Women forced to cross border for abortions as 'only one Scots surgeon trained'
A doctor has claimed there is only one doctor trained in surgical abortions in Scotland - driving women to go over the border ...