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News reporter covering Scotland for @BBCScotlandNews. Telegram @Apicken ✉️[email protected]

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£34m spent on stalled NHS centres for ops backlog
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Prisoners hospitalised after Christmas drug misuse
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£90,000-a-year patient safety role remains unfilled
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There was a really striking moment covering this FAI where Dr MacRae's son Chris was first a witness, explaining how he gave a nurse evidence of his mum's suicidal intent hours before she died, and then led the questioning of the same nurse as the family didn't have a lawyer.
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NHS staff missed chances to prevent woman taking her own life in hospital, an inquiry has ruled
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NHS staff could have stopped suicide - inquiry
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Families hit out at Covid deaths probe 'silence'
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RT @BBCNewsNI: The PSNI and Metropolitan Police acted illegally by spying on journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney, a landmark ruli…
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Clubs reported to watchdog for youth football deals
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Impact of PFI/PPP/NPD payments on NHS finances laid bare in this @AuditScotland graph. Between 1997 and 2022, NHS Scotland signed around 50 of these contracts worth £2.2bn. Since then, £4.8bn has been paid in annual unitary charges. A further £5.8bn of payments is due by 2045/46
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My landlord's 34% rent rise felt like an eviction
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Homeless could move from Edinburgh in licence plan
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RT @GlennBBC: It’s a story about me but it could be a story about anyone and it’s far more optimistic than you might think.
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@mikewadejourno all the best, Mike. You'll be missed (though more time for your abandoned shopping trolleys of Edinburgh content now...)
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Parents clashing with teachers more since Covid - inquiry
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How cigarettes and chocolates helped to tackle a TB epidemic
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Scottish Covid Inquiry: What is it investigating and how does it work?
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Portakabin hospital ward faces further delay after safety review
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Hospitals ordered to make patient safety improvements after suicides
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Carseview centre will switch to NHS Tayside in 2026 for up to £1.5m NHS Highland will take over New Craigs Hospital for £3m next year Ayrshire College will pay about £2m if they buy Kilwinning Campus next August Scottish Water will buy Dalmuir and Daldowie sewage plants in 2026
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