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Derek Healey

Scotland

Investigations and Politics Editor at The Sunday Post

Politics and investigations editor @Sunday_Post 🗞️ @stooshiescot 🎙️

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  • North of Scotland has highest rate of single-crewed ambulances as paramedic says there's 'potential for disaster'

    1 week ago | original106.co.uk | Jennifer Hale |Derek Healey

    A surge in the number of ambulances being sent with only one crew member is putting patients’ lives at risk in the north of Scotland. Clinicians say the practice risks wasting precious time in emergency cases because paramedics working alone are unable to provide some important medicines or transport very ill people to hospital. Official data shows the number of single-person shifts increased from 2,823 in 2023 to 3,121 last year.

  • Less than half of £60m earmarked for playpark facelifts spent

    1 month ago | sundaypost.com | Derek Healey

    © Alberto Lejarraga/DC Thomson Playparks all over Scotland have been left with rotting equipment despite the Scottish Government manifesto pledge. Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter.

  • 'Postcode lottery' of Scotland's pavement parking fines

    1 month ago | sundaypost.com | Derek Healey

    Glasgow City Council has left tickets on hundreds of cars like this one in Shawlands, but the story is not the same across Scotland. Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later.

  • Income divide shows Aberdeen storing up energy jobs problem

    1 month ago | pressandjournal.co.uk | Derek Healey

    Failure to secure manufacturing jobs in new green industries could see Aberdeen repeat mistakes that led Glasgow to become one of Europe’s most underperforming cities, a leading economist warnsThe warning follows analysis of average income paid across regions of Scotland which shows north-east constituencies comfortably out-performing much of the country – for now.

  • Glasgow 'missing out' on oil and gas-sized financial boom

    1 month ago | sundaypost.com | Derek Healey

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Derek Healey
Derek Healey @DerekHealey_
15 Jun 25

A few years ago it was universally agreed that increasing use of single-crew ambulances was a public danger. Now the spin is that they are “invaluable” and used “often” even for cardiac arrests - a policy experienced paramedics say puts lives at risk. https://t.co/VFLwONeIrQ

Derek Healey
Derek Healey @DerekHealey_
12 Jun 25

RT @Strath_FAI: 1/ We have seen Labour MPs and MSPs describing the SR event as increasing the block grant by £9.1 billion over the SR perio…

Derek Healey
Derek Healey @DerekHealey_
8 Jun 25

RT @Sunday_Post: £80m carbon capture cash was shelved after Greens threatened SNP pact https://t.co/VNtPZ8eKhD https://t.co/pnHAOtRv2L