This week’s Audit of Critical Care in Scotland report has revealed that the critical care unit at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh has significantly higher delayed discharge rates than the rest of Scotland. Continue reading Briggs: Critical Care delayed discharges at the Western General remain highest in Scotland
Edinburgh Leisure is offering non-members the opportunity to try out their facilities with a free 7-day pass. The offer runs from Monday, 12 August until Saturday, 31 August. Continue reading Feel good this Festival and try before you buy
Payment card replaces paper vouchers
Pregnant women and families with babies and children receiving certain benefits are to be offered increased access to healthy foods. The new Best Start Foods payment replaces the UK Government’s Healthy Start paper vouchers with a new payment card, and it’s now open for applications. Continue reading Best Start Foods payment launched
Parents in Edinburgh are being encouraged to ensure their kids’ back to school regime includes a key item along with the standard new blazer, gym kit and pencil case – a reusable water bottle. Continue reading Make Water Bottles part of the Back to School regime
Promising a fix for our broken care system across the UK has become a right of passage for new prime ministers in recent times and Boris has been no exception as he has boldly pledged to give “every older person the dignity and security they deserve” by solving the care crisis “once and for all”. Continue reading It’s time to look at the real reasons our country is in a care crisis, says recruitment chief
Publicly funded leisure centres in all local authorities have now banned the sale of high-energy soft drinks to young people under the age of 16.
The restriction will apply to soft drinks with an added caffeine content of more than 150mg per litre. Continue reading Leisure centres ban high energy drinks for under 16s
Granton vs Ferry Road … The Rematch!
SUNDAY 4th AUGUST at 7pm
Ferry Road currently have ownership of the trophy, lets see if they can keep it! Continue reading This Sunday: Morrisons Charity Rematch!
Following the announcement by Unite the union that Lothian’s drivers and engineers have voted to strike from 3 a.m. on 2 August, Social Care Alba, one of Edinburgh’s leading care and support providers have confirmed the extent to which this will affect those requiring social care and support across the capital. Continue reading Bus strike will have a ‘significant impact’ on those in need of social care and support, says Alba
The amount spend by NHS Lothian on private treatment for inpatients has reduced significantly over the last five years. Inpatient (IP/DC) private spend has dropped from £15,751,689 in 2014/15 to just £1,339,216 in 2018/19. Continue reading Health: Tories call for greater use of private sector to cut waiting times
In a speech to the TED Summit in Edinburgh, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon argued that a focus on policies that promote wellbeing, and not just economic growth, could help address the rise of alienation and disaffection from politics.
The First Minister said the time for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to be seen as the only measurement of a country’s success was over. Continue reading TED Talk: We should focus on wellbeing, says First Minister
