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Article: May 21, 2012
North East MSP Alison McInnes joined colleagues from all parties to show support for National Epilepsy Week, and to help raise public awareness of the world's most common neurological condition.
Alison, who is the deputy convener of parliament's cross-party group on epilepsy, said: "Raising awareness about epilepsy is important because it touches the lives of so many people. It's good to realise that help is available form organisations such as Epilepsy Scotland."
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Article: May 17, 2012
Commenting after statistics show an 8% rise in hate crime, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP said: "There is no place for hate crime in Scotland, and any increase is a cause for concern. However this is perhaps an encouraging sign that more people are now willing to come forward and report hate crime."
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Article: May 17, 2012
Figures obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP have revealed that there were almost 2,000 reported cases of people being admitted to hospital due to self-harm over the age of 60 in the past three years.
Commenting on these figures, Ms McInnes said: "These are worrying figures, particularly as the number of cases has increased in some health boards.
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Article: May 17, 2012
Commenting after the Labour party debate on civilian police staff, Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokesperson Alison McInnes said: "Civilian staff play an absolutely vital role in supporting our police forces. The work they do - as intelligence analysts, custody officers and community wardens - allows our police officers to spend the maximum time possible out on the beat. They are key to the community-based, preventative policing model that we are currently blessed with in Scotland.
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Article: May 16, 2012
Commenting as figures show a drop in patients contracting hospital infections such as MRSA and C.Diff, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP said: "The SNP need to raise the game on their hand washing campaign. It is vital that hygiene in hospitals is viewed as a shared responsibility which doctors, nurses, auxiliary staff and patients must adhere to.
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Article: May 15, 2012
Commenting as eight wards are closed at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley due to a suspected norovirus outbreak, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alison McInnes MSP said: "The Scottish Government should be doing more to educate people on the causes, symptoms and preventative measures of the norovirus disease."
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Article: May 14, 2012
The Scottish Liberal Democrats are launching a campaign to save bus services from cuts following dramatic changes to funding from the SNP government.
Bus service operators suffered a cut of 17.5% in their grant in April, down from £60.8 million to £53.3 million. The calculations were also changed from 41.2 pence per litre to 14.4 pence per in-service kilometre.
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Article: May 14, 2012
Commenting as the RCN calls for investment into community nursing, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman Alison McInnes MSP said today: "If we are to transfer the balance of care to the community from the NHS, then increased funding must accompany increased expectations upon community nurses.
"With a growing elderly population, the Scottish Government must work with the NHS and identify how it will meet the problem of demand management effectively in the years to come."
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Article: May 11, 2012
Commenting on an independent review into the management culture of NHS Lothian, Scottish Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Alison McInnes said today: "It is sad that we are still reading reports which identify a culture of workplace bullying within the NHS.
"Various government-endorsed policies such at Dignity at Work have gone some way to combat this horrifying culture, but it is clear that more needs to be done.
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Article: May 10, 2012
Commenting today as the Scottish Parliament passes Stage 1 of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill, Justice Committee member and Scottish Liberal Democrat justice spokeswoman Alison McInnes said: "This Bill signals the end of local accountability in our emergency services."
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