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		<title>20 mph limit to be introduced across St Andrews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Work is well underway in St. Andrews to reduce the speed limit to 20mph within the town boundaries as part of a new Fife Council initiative. Over the coming weeks, new signage will be put in place to make drivers aware of the changes to the speed limit, and to encourage them to drive appropriately. &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/12/20-mph-limit-to-be-introduced-across-st-andrews/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "20 mph limit to be introduced across St Andrews"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Visit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[coughs and colds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flu]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those wishing to visit family and loved ones in Fife’s hospitals are being reminded only to do so if they are free of the symptoms of coughs, colds and other winter viruses. With temperatures cooling over recent weeks and with coughs, colds and stomach bugs again beginning to circulate, visitors who feel unwell are being &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/11/dont-visit/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Don&#8217;t Visit!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fife first to intoduce targeted blood test</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/11/fife-first-to-intoduce-targeted-blood-test/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Placental Growth Factor-based Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pre-eclampsia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[NHS Fife has become the first Board in Scotland to introduce a targeted blood test for pregnant women at increased risk of pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia is serious condition and can pose considerable risks to the health of both women and their babies. Around 10% of pregnant women present with the possible signs of pre-eclampsia, such as &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/11/fife-first-to-intoduce-targeted-blood-test/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Fife first to intoduce targeted blood test"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Large Black Hole in NHS Fife&#8217;s Finances</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/06/large-black-hole-in-nhs-fifes-finances/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brokerage Loan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margo McGurk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS Fife]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[NHS Fife is struggling financially, as are other NHS Boards in Scotland. In March, the Health Board was forced to ask the Scottish Government for a £11 million loan to break even, but its finance director is forecasting a £29.8 million overspend for the coming year. Introducing her report to the Board last week, Margo &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/06/large-black-hole-in-nhs-fifes-finances/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Large Black Hole in NHS Fife&#8217;s Finances"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>NHS Fife and Fife College to form a New Partnersip</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/nhs-fife-and-fife-college-to-form-a-new-partnersip/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 11:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of a partnership agreement between NHS Fife and St Andrews University to train medical students in Fife, comes an agreement between  NHS Fife and Fife College to improve education and training opportunities for people in Fife and enable much greater collaboration between the two institutions. The new formal five-year partnership was &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/nhs-fife-and-fife-college-to-form-a-new-partnersip/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "NHS Fife and Fife College to form a New Partnersip"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>St Andrews medical students now able to complete their training in Fife</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/st-andrews-medical-students-now-able-to-complete-their-training-in-fife/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 18:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Picture: Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE (left), Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of St Andrews, and NHS Fife Chief Executive Carol Potter sign the Memorandum of Understanding A major new partnership between the University of St Andrews and NHS Fife will benefit patient care and medical research in the Kingdom of Fife, while boosting Scotland’s overall training provision &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/st-andrews-medical-students-now-able-to-complete-their-training-in-fife/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "St Andrews medical students now able to complete their training in Fife"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>First Minister Officially Opens Fife National Treatment Centre</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/03/first-minister-officially-opens-fife-national-treatment-centre/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Treatment Centre - Fife]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In what was her last public engagement, outgoing First Minister, Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon MSP, was welcomed to Fife last week (25th March) to officially open the new Fife Orthopaedic National Treatment Centre. The Fife Orthopaedic National Treatment Centre (NTC) will provide additional capacity for more than 700 orthopaedic procedures a year including hip and &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/03/first-minister-officially-opens-fife-national-treatment-centre/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "First Minister Officially Opens Fife National Treatment Centre"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>NHS Fife create online cancer hub</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/01/nhs-fife-create-online-cancer-hub/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new online cancer hub created by NHS Fife will help patients and people affected by cancer to access the information they need to help navigate through their cancer journey. The hub on the NHS Fife website is for those who have received a cancer diagnosis, those awaiting procedures or results, people living with cancer &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/01/nhs-fife-create-online-cancer-hub/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "NHS Fife create online cancer hub"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Covid: Fife cases continue rise in new wave of infections</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/06/covid-fife-cases-continue-rise-in-new-wave-of-infections/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the week ending June 17, there was a 40% increase (1,005 positive cases) in Fife compared with the previous seven days as another wave of infections continues to hit Scotland and Nicola Sturgeon recommends a return to mask wearing. In In Tayside, Dundee saw an increase of 34% (335 positive cases), with a 39.6% rise &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/06/covid-fife-cases-continue-rise-in-new-wave-of-infections/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Covid: Fife cases continue rise in new wave of infections"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>First St Andrews medical graduates in over 50 years</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/06/first-st-andrews-medical-graduates-in-over-50-years/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first medical students to graduate at the University of St Andrews in over 50 years received their degrees earlier this month (June) in the Younger Hall as part of a bumper three weeks of graduation celebrations. A total of 44 students from ScotGEM, Scotland’s first graduate entry medical programme designed to develop doctors interested in &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/06/first-st-andrews-medical-graduates-in-over-50-years/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "First St Andrews medical graduates in over 50 years"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Calling prospective medical students!</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/06/calling-prospective-medical-students/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[NHS Fife is offering students considering a career in medicine the opportunity to find out what it&#8217;s like. Run jointly with the University of St Andrews, the course will be available to current S6 pupils, recently having completed S5. Running for a week in the summer, this programme will give you MMI interview skills practice, provide you &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/06/calling-prospective-medical-students/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Calling prospective medical students!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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