Published Date:
23 June 2009
MEMBERS of the public will be able to stand for a place on the board of NHS Fife for the first time ever.
Fife, alongside Dumfries and Galloway is to pilot the first ever direct elections to health boards following an announcement by Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon last week.
The public will be able to stand for and vote in the elections which will see elected representatives – including council representatives – form a majority on the health board.
Also in a Scottish and UK first, 16 - year-olds will have the right to stand and vote in a UK election.
Nicola Sturgeon revealed that alongside this, NHS Lothian and NHS Grampian will run two non-statutory pilots which will test ways in which we can improve the existing relationship between the public and the NHS.
Read the full story in this week's Mail.
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Last Updated:
23 June 2009 11:38 AM
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