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Colin Beattie MSP column: Tories must hand back the £15m

Colin Beattie MSP column: Tories must hand back the £15m
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Edinburgh MSPs back plea to Chancellor: Take VAT off defibrillators

Edinburgh and Lothian MSPs are backing a call for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to make life-saving heart-start machines exempt from VAT.

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Edinburgh s new eye hospital must be fast tracked, says MSP amid fears progress on project is too slow

Submitting. Design work on the new eye hospital was well advanced before the project was cancelled in December Public pressure, cross-party concern and calls from medical experts for a rethink helped persuade First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to promise on the campaign trail that a re-elected SNP government would after all fund a replacement for the Eye Pavilion, which has been declared no longer ft for purpose. She repeated the pledge when she presented the new government’s priorities to the Scottish Parliament and NHS Lothian has been asked to resubmit its outline business case for the project. But Mr Briggs now fears the hospital is not being given enough priority.He said: We’re moving at a snail’s pace with getting this project back on track. This is a project which has been delayed because of the government.

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Scotland s new Health Secretary urged to visit Edinburgh s Eye Pavilion to see for himself urgent need for a replacement

“I think he should come and visit the current site to really see the need for the Eye Pavilion to be replaced as soon as possible.” Plans for a replacement eye hospital next to the Royal Infirmary at Little France were agreed in principle in 2018, but the government told NHS Lothian in December 2020 it would not fund the project, prompting a public outcry and cross-party calls for a rethink. During the election campaign, Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would after all fund a replacement – and she repeated the pledge when she set out the government’s priorities in the Scottish Parliament.

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West Lothian self-employed workers are not getting help they need in pandemic

West Lothian self-employed workers are not getting help they need in pandemic Federation of Small Businesses say covid crisis has hit the self-employed hard and more needs to be done to support them Updated More needs to be done to support self-employed workers (Image: SHARED CONTENT UNIT) Join thousands of others and get the latest West Lothian Courier news and sport sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice.

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