Mid-Scotland and Fife MSPs, Murdo Fraser and Liz Smith, have called on Fife’s Integration Joint Board (IJB) to put forward a middle way that would achieve safe and sustainable out-of-hours healthcare in the region at next week’s critical meeting.

GP surgeries in the NHS Tayside region are having to deal with 11% more patients after new figures revealed that five practices have been lost over the past ten years.

A new report from Audit Scotland has said that urgent action is needed to turn around the financial and performance problems at NHS Tayside.

NHS Tayside met just seven from twenty national standards this March - two fewer than they achieved the year before.

Small Business Saturday is a UK wide initiative to encourage and support small businesses, especially in the drive towards Christmas. The idea is simple: for at least one day, shop entirely in small businesses. Hopefully this will result in more people continuing to use small businesses.

Mid-Scotland and Fife MSP Murdo Fraser has grilled the Transport Minister on ScotRail failures following a weekend of travel chaos and has called on Michael Matheson to “light a rocket” under bosses of the struggling service.

Mid-Scotland and Fife MSP, Liz Smith, has delivered a bumper cheque to Poppy Scotland at a recent event commemorating the First World War. 

Mid-Scotland and Fife MSP, Murdo Fraser, has signalled his concern following recently released statistics which show than nearly 70% of NHS Tayside patients are waiting longer than 12 weeks for an outpatient appointment.

Scottish Conservative MSP, Murdo Fraser, has encouraged people across Mid-Scotland and Fife to shop local this weekend in order to support Small Business Saturday.

Mid-Scotland and Fife MSPs, Murdo Fraser and Liz Smith, have welcomed the appointment of new NHS Tayside Chief Executive, Grant Archibald, but have warned that he will have his work cut out to solve problems at the health board.

New statistics have revealed that hundreds of teaching posts in the Fife area have been re-advertised in the last two years amid struggles to fill vacancies.

According to the statistics, 151 posts have been re-advertised this year compared to just 59 in 2016.