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NHS Trust Leak Gives Massive Publicity Boost to Maternity Services Issue

There has been huge publicity on the maternity services in Caithness since the news leaked about the review and then the financial problems of the Trust.   Given the assurances given at reorganisation under the "Designed to Care" proposals less than two years ago people in Caithness would appear to have been right to worry about the changes that many did not want.  

Deacon Welcomes Report On Fairer NHS Funding Formula

Health Minister Susan Deacon today welcomed the publication of the final report of the National Review of Resource Allocation for the NHS in Scotland and its proposals for a fairer formula for the distribution of health spending.   The final report of the independent expert committee, chaired by Professor Sir John Arbuthnott, is the product of work lasting two and a half years.