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Margaret Mary McCartney is a general practitioner, freelance writer and broadcaster based in Glasgow, Scotland.McCartney is a vocal advocate for evidence-based medicine. [1] [2] McCartney was a regular columnist at the British Medical Journal.
In 2008, with 60% of Scotland's GP practices still using GPASS, a national procurement was announced as part of a managed transition off the platform. [12] Procurement began in July 2009. The planned date for retiral of the GPASS service was March 2012. By August 2012 all GP practices had migrated to either INPS Vision or EMIS PCS. [13]
John Calum Macdonald Gillies OBE FRCGP FRCPE FRSE is a medical doctor who worked as general practitioner (GP) and who is the Depute Director of the Scottish School of Primary Care. He was formerly the chair of the Scottish Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) from November 2010 to November 2014.
Until the 2004 contract most GPs provided care for their patients outside those hours either themselves, or as part of a GP Co-operative. [7] The total amount earmarked for Out of Hours duties including Night Visit Fees was an average of just under £6000 per GP per year. [8]
There were initially 15 HBs in 1974 but the Argyll and Clyde HB was abolished and its area absorbed into the Highland and Greater Glasgow HBs on 1 April 2006, with the latter renamed to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. [24] The part of the NHS Argyll and Clyde area which transferred to NHS Highland corresponds to the Argyll and Bute council area.
By 2006, 80% of Scottish GP practices had exercised this right. From Autumn 2004 patients calling NHS 24 began to experience delays. [ 18 ] The algorithms used by the NHS24 call handlers in 2004 were purchased under licence from an American company but these weren't divulged to other clinicians working in the health service due to clauses in ...
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Punam Krishan was born 28 May 1983 [1] in Glasgow, and grew up in a small tenement flat with her younger sister and extended family. [2] Her parents had an arranged marriage, [3] and moved from Kapurthala in Punjab to Scotland [4] in the late 1970s, [3] where her father owned a corner shop. [2]