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Day surgery rate improves but better performance could free up resources

Posted: 4 September 2008

The rate of day surgery continues to rise but there remains wide variation in performance among health boards.

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Good quality palliative care is not available to everyone who needs it

Posted: 21 August 2008

Access to good palliative care needs to improve and it must be more consistently provided for the thousands of people who need it each year.

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Perth & Kinross is committed to best value and now needs to build on its good work

Posted: 12 August 2008

The council is carrying out good work and has the capacity and ability to build on this to improve service performance.

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