{"id":272103,"date":"2025-07-18T13:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272103\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T13:13:23","slug":"health-minister-confident-in-nhs-fife-amid-sandie-peggie-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272103\/","title":{"rendered":"Health minister confident in NHS Fife amid Sandie Peggie row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ms Peggie also faced four allegations of gross misconduct, including two alleged failures of patient care, but she was cleared on Monday after NHS Fife admitted there was insufficient evidence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read More:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Health secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/neil-gray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Gray<\/a> was questioned about the ongoing tribunal on a visit to Glenrothes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tribunal is in its 13th day, with Friday&#8217;s witnesses including\u00a0Dr Elspeth Pitt, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, and Louise Curran, Senior Charge Nurse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/fife\/5291845\/neil-gray-confidence-nhs-fife-sandie-peggie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Courier<\/a> if he still had confidence in NHS Fife, Mr Gray replied: &#8220;Of course I do.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cNHS Fife has got an important role to play in ensuring they are delivering NHS service to the people of Fife.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI have confidence in their ability to do so.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I\u2019ve got no further comment to make on an ongoing employment tribunal process.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThat needs to be respected and allow the process to take its course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Peggie also faced four allegations of gross misconduct, including two alleged failures of patient care, but she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-272103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114874417347802229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}