Health minister Nicola Sturgeon to 'carry the can' over hospital infection deaths - The Telegraph 19th June 2008

There's not a worse job in government than being responsible for running the always creaking National Health Service, a fact to which the grey hairs - and sometimes even the bleached bones - of a whole series of health ministers down the generations bear witness. And from the evidence of the statement, Nicola Sturgeon, the Health Minister and deputy First Minister, has on her hands one of the biggest and worst examples of third-world hospital standards ever seen in these islands.

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