Alex constituency work and important updates
A petition calling on NHS Fife and the Scottish Government to take action to address the shortages of GPs and qualified medical staff in Fife is building support as Fife MSP Alex Rowley has warned things will ‘get worse’ unless action is taken. Mr Rowley said: “Across Fife […]
COMMUNITY NOTICE – COMMUNICATION FROM SHELL FIFE NGL PLANT Wednesday 27 June, 2018 Dear community colleagues, I would like to let you know of some work we plan to carry out on the Shell Fife NGL site, Mossmorran next week on Tuesday 3rd July as part of a programme to replace […]
Happy 70th Birthday to our NHS Hundreds of people were lining up in Cowdenbeath this week to sign a card celebrating 70 years of the NHS, but services are under immense pressure and NHS Fife needs to address worrying levels of vacancies across hospital and community services. The NHS was the greatest creation […]
Methilhill Community Children’s Initiative is a community group, dedicated to providing local children with clubs, activities, nursery education, and to providing local families with information and advice. The group has gone from strength to strength, now operating a full programme 6 days a week. Please explore their site to learn more about them. You […]
I was delighted to meet with Janet Henry and Janet Rutherford from Glenrothes at Holyrood Park to promote the “Marie Curie Blooming Great Garden Party”. The Janets and Marie Curie do amazing work and ask us for our support in recognising the hard work done in supporting people with terminal illness and their families. The […]
I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Health as well as the pharmaceutical company Roche to call for a deal to be made to deliver the life-prolonging drug Perjeta in Scotland. Shockingly, women in England and Wales can currently get Perjeta on the NHS whereas in Scotland, they can’t. National charity Breast Cancer Now […]
Rowley Calls for Life-prolonging Breast Cancer Drug to be Made Available in Mid Scotland and Fife Alex Rowley MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the pharmaceutical company Roche to call for a deal to be made to deliver the life-prolonging drug Perjeta in Scotland. Currently […]
I recently hosted a public meeting in Dunfermline on the overnight closures of the Fife out of hours services. This was a joint meeting with Shirley-Anne Somerville and myself, and featured a presentation from Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. The meeting was well attended and lots of people were raising serious concerns about […]
Kelty needs a new health centre. See my video below on why, and sign the petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/p/keltyhealthcentre [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQMaft21BM[/embedyt] We need Fife Council to negotiate a Section 75 Agreement that will see a new health centre being built as part of the phased development of 900 new homes in Kelty. […]