£4k engagement ring and £1k cash stolen from sick patients in Tayside
An engagement ring worth more than £4,000 and £1,000 in cash are just some of the items suspected to have been stolen from sick patients in Tayside last year.
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‘Crisis after crisis’… calls for NHS Tayside to restore public confidence as sex probe launched
The senior NHS boss at the centre of inappropriate conduct claims has remained silent after allegations he had sex in his office surfaced on Wednesday.
NHS Tayside report on mental health unit must be made public, minister told
Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has been urged to ensure an internal report on treatment at a mental health unit is published in full.
‘Traumatic’ reading as Holyrood releases report on chemo doses in Tayside
An official report into the NHS Tayside chemotherapy scandal will be “traumatic” reading for afflicted patients and the families of breast cancer patients who died, support groups have warned.
Health secretary calls for ‘robust’ probe into claim NHS boss had sex in office
A senior NHS Tayside director is under investigation over claims he was caught having sex in his office, the Tele can reveal.
EXCLUSIVE: Probe over claims £185k-a-year NHS Tayside boss caught having sex in his office
A senior NHS Tayside director is under investigation over claims he was caught having sex in his office, the Tele can reveal.
GPs now prescribing ‘fresh air’ to treat patients in some Dundee surgeries
GPs in Dundee are now able to prescribe spending time in nature to improve patients’ health and wellbeing as part of a pilot scheme.
Cancer survivors affected by Tayside chemo dose fallout form help group
Locals affected by an NHS move to give breast cancer patients lower doses of chemotherapy have created a support group while the fallout continues.
EXCLUSIVE: 14 Tayside deaths to be probed over cancer chemotherapy dosage
The treatment of 14 patients who died while receiving chemotherapy treatment at NHS Tayside is to be investigated by an independent expert in the wake of the health board’s dosage controversy.
Breast cancer deaths to be probed after patients given lower chemotherapy doses
A health board’s treatment of 14 breast cancer patients who died will be reviewed by an independent expert after bosses admitted hundreds of patients were given lower doses of chemotherapy.
EXCLUSIVE: Independent probe into Tayside breast cancer deaths after lower treatment doses revealed
An independent expert is to review fatal breast cancer cases in Tayside after the health board admitted patients were given lower doses of treatment than those in the rest of Scotland.
Senior NHS worker faces tribunal after drink-driving conviction in Dundee
A senior NHS worker is set to appear before a medical tribunal after she was convicted of drink-driving in Dundee.
NHS Tayside apologises to patient after botched operation left cement in her knee
Tayside health bosses have been told to apologise to a woman after her knee replacement surgery went awry and surgical cement leaked out of the implant.
Tayside breast cancer patients get smaller dose of chemotherapy than others in Scotland
Health chiefs have been forced to apologise to breast cancer patients after a report revealed they were given a smaller dose of chemotherapy than others across Scotland.
Breast cancer patients given lower doses of chemotherapy in Tayside
NHS Tayside will change the chemotherapy treatment provided to breast cancer sufferers after a report revealed patients were being given a lower dose of drugs than in the rest of Scotland.
Children in Dundee schools taking drugs to delay puberty as they question their gender
Seven youngsters in Dundee – all under the age of 16 – are taking medicines to delay the onset of puberty while they question their gender.
MSP blames drop in vaccine uptake in Dundee on ‘social media pseudoscience’
The falling rate at which kids are being vaccinated against diseases like meningitis, flu and polio has been blamed on “social media pseudoscience” by a leading MSP.
Dundee Ninewells medic who hit person with shepherd’s crook is suspended for eight weeks
A Ninewells Hospital doctor who admitted hitting a man with a shepherd’s crook has been suspended from practising medicine for eight weeks.
NHS Tayside pays out more than £120,000 over two years to staff injured at work.
NHS Tayside has paid more than £120,000 over two years to staff who have been injured at work.
Warm welcome for Coldside’s new community food cupboard
A new Community Cupboard offering fresh food to those who need it has been opened in Coldside.