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‘there are times I could just run out the door’
As told to Joan McFadden Susan Love, a nurse, lives in Paisley with her husband Willie and 19-year-old son Owen, who has cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus. Here, she tells Owen about the love – and the guilt – she feels for him
You’ve always been a bit of a surprise to me, right from the moment I found out I was 26 weeks pregnant at the age of 19.
Scotland: Patients get new right to treatment within 12 weeks
Patients get new right to treatment within 12 weeks
Patients have a legal right to receive treatment within a maximum 12 weeks of diagnosis under new laws.
It means those who need planned inpatient or day case treatment will be covered by a treatment time guarantee.
They will have a legal right to receive it within a maximum of 12 weeks from when they are diagnosed and agree to the treatment.
The guarantee is one of the rights in the Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities.