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NHS should pay donors for organs

By Cara Sulieman THE NHS should PAY people for their organs, according to new proposals from a think tank. The controversial plan comes from a fellow...

Anger as doctors pocket £142 for every cremation

By Michael MacLeod SCOTTISH doctors have pocketed an estimated £1.5 million by charging grieving families to have cremation certificates signed. The £71 so-called “ash cash”...

A quarter of paediatric junior doctors are on maternity leave

By Cara Sulieman A SENIOR medic is warning of a dramatic shortage in doctors working on specialist children’s wards after a mini baby boom wiped out...

GPs throw toys out the pram in swine flu scare

By Michael MacLeod TOYS have been banned from Scots doctors’ waiting rooms because of fears they could spread the deadly swine flu bug. Crèches at...

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