All news by author: Vivienne Aitken

Scottish Ambulance Service chairman Tom Steele's wife Gillian died of a cardiac arrest in Lanarkshire after a student technician was sent as a first responder without a fully trained paramedic

David Baxter, 69, was having heart problems and had to sit overnight on a hard plastic chair in a waiting room at University Hospital Monklands in Lanarkshire last Monday before he saw a medic and wasn't alone

Disgraced surgeon Sam Eljamel inflicted horror upon dozens of victims who trusted him as the head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee before he was eventually suspended

Tracy Bulpitt’s oldest child Katy, 12, died on November 2 2021, after a catastrophic attack. And of her five other kids, her youngest three all have asthma too

Benjamin, who has spina bifida and hydrocephalus, loves to play like any other child but struggles to make friends with able-bodied children he meets in the park

Suzanne Doherty's baby son Leo was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis just weeks after he was born - and she is now worried he won't get the treatment he needs to survive on the NHS

Phil Welsh, 55, weighed 32 stone at his heaviest and became depressed following the death of his dad, so much so that he tried to end his life on several occasions

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Theresa, 42, and Matthew Smith, 53, have been banned from speaking about the death of their baby daughter Sophia after she picked up an infection

Jacklyn Richardson is desperate for treatment for the heavy lump which becomes sore when she walks and has stopped her from driving

Araf Saddiq didn't initially realise he was the first Muslim to work in the Scottish Ambulance Service - but as a paramedic he faced horrific racist abuse that saw one man calling him a terrorist and attacking him

NHS worker Graham Scott, 45, has a brain tumour and has been told he may not be seen by a specialist until November, leaving him and his family begging for help

Great-granny Helen, a nurse for 40 years, has had breast cancer twice so cannot get radiotherapy and there is no possibility of surgery. She fears the cancer has spread further with all the delays

Andrena McCarroll has suffered from back pain for over a year and after attending a GP appointment, she was given a hospital referral letter. Doctors wanted to discharge her but she refuses to leave

George Taft was one of two sailors working on a tugboat as it escorted a cruise ship into a harbour in Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, when it overturned, sadly killing them both