LISTEN: MSP looks for longer term solutions for Moray healthcare

Parkinson's services and staffing levels at Dr Gray's high on the agenda for Richard Lochhead's meeting with the Chief Executive of NHS Grampian

Published 3rd Oct 2016

MSP Richard Lochhead has met with the Chief Executive of NHS Grampian, Malcolm Wright, to discuss the delivery of services at Dr Gray's and in the wider Moray area.

Among Mr Lochhead's concerns were the provision for Parkinson's services, staffing levels at Dr Gray's and the pain clinic.

The Moray MSP said: "I've taken the opportunity - as I do every time we meet - to impress upon him the importance of Dr Gray's to patients in Moray and how vital it is that as many services as possible are delivered locally."

Here's what he learned from the Chief Executive on the situation with Parkinson's patients:-

But Mr Lochhead says they need to keep up the pressure to preserve services at the heart of Moray in Dr Gray's:-