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08Feb 10
PDE Column, 8th February 2010 – This week’s postbag, Dad’s Leave, Hill Tracks and Snaring Ban
This week’s postbag
My postbag has been very busy lately. This week has had a typical spread of issues arising including an elderly constituent needing a quicker Occupational Therapy Assessment, action on dog fouling, the overcrowding faced by a expanding family, a pregnant woman looking for a H1N1 vaccination, a request for speed cameras on a rat run road, an appeal for bus passes by workers at Haven Products a local social enterprise, and concerns about the timing of lights in centre of Paisley. Read more »
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01Feb 10
Hearing into Vale of Leven deaths
Wendy Alexander MSP has welcomed the first official hearing of the inquiry into the outbreak of C. Difficile at the Vale of Leven Hospital, which claimed 18 lives between December 2007 and June 2008.
Wendy Alexander said:
“It is essential that the NHS learns lessons from what happened at the Vale of Leven. The recent outbreaks in other Scottish hospitals, including Ninewells in Dundee, shows that there is much more to be done in the fight against superbugs. Read more »
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01Feb 10
Linwood Shopping Centre – meeting of Linwood Seniors Forum
Wendy Alexander MSP and Jim Sheridan MP met with the Linwood Seniors Forum this morning in the Tweedie Halls. The group of nearly 100 Linwood pensioners were demanding that Tesco make good on their promises now three years old. The was an air of anxiety within the Seniors about whether Tesco would actually go ahead with Linwood or start looking more towards their plans of a ‘Silverburn’ type store at Wallneuk in Paisley. The large disillusioned crowd were keen to hear news of Wendy’s recent stronger moves to spur Tesco into action. Read more »