Prescription for Disaster ; (1) Fury As Pounds 1,000-Per-Day Foreign Gps Flood Into Scotland(2) Highcost of Flying Doctors to Cover for Scottish Gps
Mail on Sunday › January 20, 2008
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FOREIGN doctors are being flown into Scotland almost every day to cover for GPs who refuse to work out-of-hours.
A Scottish Mail on Sunday investigation has revealed that half of the coun-trys health boards pay up to Pounds 1,000 a day to bring in medics from countries such as Germany and Poland.See the full content of this document
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Prescription for Disaster ; (1) Fury As Pounds 1,000-Per-Day Foreign Gps Flood Into Scotland(2) Highcost of Flying Doctors to Cover for Scottish Gps
Last night, Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon faced a parliamentary revolt over the crisis as MSPs demanded to know why so many foreign GPs were being allowed to fly in to treat Scots at weekends.
The powerful cross-party Health committee has written to Mi...See the full content of this document
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