WHERE now for Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon's much vaunted policy of a "presumption against centralisation", and what would be the views of the Independent Scrutiny Panel on this decision, which was apparently made without public consultation? I cannot disagree with the evidential merits of the decision to transfer patients with heart attacks to centres of excellence with angiography suites: it is correct.

By HELEN PUTTICK HEALTH CORRESPONDENT IN Yes Minister a manager boasts of running one of the most efficient hospitals in the country, glossing over the small detail that it has no patients.

ANYONE contemplating a cardiac arrest in South Lanarkshire should take heed of comments by the SNP's Alex Neil during the recent Holyrood debate on the reorganisation of accident and emergency services.

By JONATHAN PAISLEY TRAIN passengers using a key route into Glasgow could quit using the public transport due to severe overcrowding, experts warned today. Carriages on the East Kilbride to Glasgow line are 94-per cent full during the morning rush hour . . .

THE overcrowding on the rail line between East Kilbride and Busby shows people are willing to use public transport. But they won't continue to do so if they're continually squashed into carriages.