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  Malcolm Chisholm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Malcolm Chisholm (born 7 March 1949) is a Scottish Labour Party politician, and Minister for Communities in the Scottish Executive.
Chisholm was educated at Edinburgh University and became an English teacher.
Chisholm was member of Parliament for Edinburgh Leith from 1992, then Edinburgh North and Leith from 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_Chisholm   (157 words)

  
 Malcolm J. Chisholm Jr. Registered Patent Attorney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Attorney Chisholm is a registered patent attorney, and has substantial expertise in preparing and prosecuting patent applications involving fuel cells, their support systems, and related apparatus.
Malcolm also has had a lot of exposure to computer-law matters as a result of successfully co-litigating a protracted and complex case dealing with brand new legal issues related to copyright protection of computer programs.
Attorney Malcolm Chisholm earned an Associate of Science degree from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture in 1977 and was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in plant and soil science, from the University of Massachusetts in 1978.
www.mjcpatents.com /bio.html   (265 words)

  
 Edinburgh North & Leith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Malcolm Chisholm was one of the few Labour MPs who stood for the Scottish parliament and in 2001 his replacement is Mark Lazarowicz, previously Labour leader of Edinburgh District Council.
Malcolm Chisholm's standing in Leith was proved by the fact that his vote actually held steady at 46.9 % in the 1999 Scottish election.
Malcolm Chisholm was born in 1949 in Edinburgh and educated at George Watson's College.
www.alba.org.uk /scot03constit/l03.html   (2218 words)

  
 PQ_121104
Malcolm Chisholm: (1) The allocation methodology is based on a formula composed of indicators that reflect the key client groups which are intended to benefit from the Supporting People programme and for which data of a sufficient quality is available.
The formula is composed of four elements (a) the number of elderly people in the local authority area; (b) the number of people with disabilities; (c) the number of homelessness allocations (averaged over a three year period), and (d) the degree of deprivation.
Malcolm Chisholm: The Scottish Executive has provided a grant of £125,000 from the Improving Public Service Delivery Fund to develop a consortium of key organisations working to improve information for older people.
www.scod.org.uk /pq/121104.htm   (1277 words)

  
 News articles for Chisholm, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Malcolm Chisholm, the health minister, last week ordered an end to the patchwork provision of life-saving drugs by forcing all health boards to provide...
CHISHOLM — The Chisholm girls basketball team had a rough start to its season at Esko on Tuesday as the Streaks fell by a score of 79-34.
Malcolm Chisholm, health minister, welcomed the report, which is compiled from forms filled out by surgeons, which are then assessed by consultant surgeons and...
www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Minnesota/Chisholm.html   (2624 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Chisholm
Health minister Malcolm Chisholm was accused of trying to distance himself today from a report by an expert group he set up to examine Scotland’s sexual...
CHISHOLM — Four key figures working for the City of Chisholm will have to sharpen up their job interviewing skills as the city council will be meeting with...
A 26-year-old Chisholm man was arraigned in Koochiching County District Court on Monday on charges in connection with the cutting of nearly 27,000 treetops on...
www.nametraq.org /Jan04/C/Chisholm.shtml   (2256 words)

  
 Caithness CWS - Eye On - Health Services In Caithness - 7 February 2004 Assembly Rooms
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm (16 December 2003): Included within the expected changes to the nature of demand on ambulance services in the area is the assumption that more expectant mothers may require to be transferred to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley.
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm (3 December 2003): Some of the additional funding will be used by the Scottish Ambulance Service to respond to the changes to the nature of demand on the service arising from the review of maternity services in the area.
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm (25 November 2003): The report of the expert group on acute maternity services (EGAMS) stated that one-to-one midwifery care should be the norm for all women during labour and childbirth.
www.caithness.org /eyeon/healthservicesincaithness/7february2004.htm   (1827 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Business - Hepatitis
HEALTH Minister Malcolm Chisholm was today coming under attack from the head of a body set up to...
MALCOLM Chisholm, the health minister, was last night accused of delaying compensation payments...
MALCOLM Chisholm was accused last night of "fudging" the issue of compensation payments for...
business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=846&page=3   (358 words)

  
 The resignations
Malcolm Chisholm: The biggest surprise in Malcolm Chisholm's political career was not his resignation yesterday but the fact that Tony Blair ever put him in Government.
Mr Chisholm, who has resigned from his post as a Scottish Office minister, was marked out from the first as a leading Left-winger who once said the Labour Party was "a crusade or it is nothing".
In spite of a long record of opposing the Prime Minister's vision of "new" Labour, Mr Chisholm was brought into the fold in 1996 when he was offered a front-bench post as a party spokesman on Scottish affairs.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/12/11/nlab111.html   (600 words)

  
 Fury over minister's hepatitis C delaying tactics
MALCOLM Chisholm, the health minister, was last night accused of delaying compensation payments for patients infected with the hepatitis C virus after being given contaminated blood products.
Mr Chisholm last week accepted the principle of the Executive making payments to victims who have suffered long-term harm, but stressed there were complex medical, legal and financial considerations to be taken into account before a final decision is taken.
The minister has also admitted that the scale of the funding package and the effect it would have on an already hard-pressed NHS was one of the major issues he would need to investigate.
www.vaccinationnews.com /DailyNews/November2002/FuryOver15.htm   (347 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Health - Chisholm bows to hospital campaigners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Malcolm Chisholm has given the Queen Mother’s maternity a six-year reprieve and promise of £100m.
MALCOLM Chisholm, the embattled health minister, bowed to public pressure over health-care cuts yesterday, hours before facing a motion of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament.
However, Mr Chisholm’s announcement drew the sting from the Tory motion, which accused the minister of failing to deliver a health strategy to serve the needs of local communities.
news.scotsman.com /health.cfm?id=1146062004   (817 words)

  
 Chisholm gets rough ride on health - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Health minister Malcolm Chisholm has had a rough ride from Labour MPs worried at the impact of local hospital cutbacks.
During the two-hour meeting, Mr Chisholm was reportedly given a "rough ride" and told to "get a grip" on the health service in Scotland.
Pressure has been mounting on Mr Chisholm at Holyrood to declare a moratorium on planned cutbacks until a national strategy could be agreed.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /news/5030587.shtml   (199 words)

  
 News Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Since then, the problems have grown, which is why Malcolm Chisholm had to go to London today to answer some of his fiercest critics - MPs from his own party.
Scotland's health minister Malcolm Chisholm MSP was in hostile territory today, visiting Westminster.
These were just some of the voices warning Malcolm Chisholm about what they claim are disasterous consequences for Scotland's NHS if the health boards' plans go ahead.
scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.uk /content?page=s1_1_1&newsid=5107   (339 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Minister survives confidence move
Mr Chisholm denied that his decision to make the announcement on the same day as the no-confidence motion was a cynical move.
Mr Chisholm told MSPs that he had given a great deal of consideration to maternity services in Glasgow and had meetings with doctors, nurses and midwives over the issue.
Mr Chisholm said he was confident that the health board would co-operate with the advisory group, but if it did not he would use powers to "direct" it.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3702552.stm   (825 words)

  
 Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Chisholm makes nursing jobs pledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Malcolm Chisholm: "Traditional nursing roles can be expanded and developed in a way which meets the needs of patients."
HEALTH Minister Malcolm Chisholm today pledged to tend Scotland’s nursing care back to health with a major recruitment drive.
The recruitment drive is being seen as a way to help bring about a huge reduction in waiting lists, with plans also being drawn up for a minimum of 20,000 extra operations a year to be provided by the NHS in Scotland.
edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=740962004   (517 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Chisholm: 'I have no control'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
HEALTH Minister Malcolm Chisholm has admitted to astonished Labour MSPs that he has ‘no control’ over NHS bureaucrats who are planning to slash hospital services across Scotland.
In an admission likely to place further question marks over his future, Chisholm is understood to have admitted to angry colleagues that he was helpless to intervene in several controversial proposals to centralise hospital services.
Labour insiders are now expressing serious disquiet with Chisholm and Jones’s handling of the issue, warning that the minister must do more to prove he is up to the job.
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1045532004   (889 words)

  
 Our campaign is backed by 'The Minister who listens' - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
When Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm threw out plans to shut the Queen Mum's Maternity Hospital, he was repaying the trust that had led many in Glasgow to call him "the minister who listens".
Mr Chisholm was already aware of scandals raised by previous attempts at public consultation in Glasgow.
Mr Chisholm's appointment as Scottish Health Minister in November 2001 was welcomed by Margaret Hinds, chairwoman of Health Service Forum South East, the group fighting the closure of the Victoria Infirmary.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /features/7015084.html   (1074 words)

  
 British Nursing News Online - News Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The plan, that would reduce the number of hospitals in the city from six to three, was approved by Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm earlier this month.
Malcolm Chisholm yesterday defended Scotland's first out-of-hours health service as it was officially launched in Aberdeen.
Malcolm Chisholm, Scotland’s health minister, yesterday announced that the roll-out of the flagship patients’ helpline, NHS 24, will go ahead on schedule across Scotland - despite "teething problems" with the pilot project in the North-east.
www.bnn-online.co.uk /news_datesearch.asp?SearchDate=27/Aug/2002&Year=2002   (920 words)

  
 Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Chisholm breaks ranks over war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
SCOTLAND’S health minister Malcolm Chisholm yesterday broke ranks with his cabinet colleagues to come out against military action in Iraq, saying he deeply regretted backing the government’s policy in a Holyrood vote.
Scotland on Sunday understands that two of Chisholm’s cabinet colleagues, culture minister Mike Watson and the education minister Cathy Jamieson, are also deeply uneasy about the prospect of war without UN backing although neither is expected to resign from Jack McConnell’s cabinet.
Chisholm said the case for war had not been proven and that he felt it was right to "speak out".
scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=317372003   (867 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Minister hails troubled hospital
The hospital has the only in-patients ward in the UK Scotland's health minister has told doctors fighting to keep in-patient beds at a homeopathic hospital that he was "very impressed" with their work.
Malcolm Chisholm was visiting the Glasgow hospital, which is under threat due to budget cuts.
The hospital is the only one in the UK able to look after patients 24 hours a day and tackle complex cases which are not responding to conventional medicine.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/3868663.stm   (562 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Business - Hepatitis - Virus victims deserve pay-out, says legal expert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Malcolm Chisholm, the health minister, is due to make a final decision at the health committee on Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish Executive said Mr Chisholm was looking into the provision of setting up a scheme providing financial support to those suffering "serious long-term harm and who are experiencing hardship".
She added: "We published Lord Ross’s report at the beginning of November and the Health Minister said at the time we would like to be able to help those people who were in need.
business.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=846&id=1368312002   (734 words)

  
 patent attorney fuel cell specialist Malcolm J. Chisholm Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Chisholm has specialized in intellectual property since 1986, opening his own solo law practice in 1992.
Malcolm has also served as Adjunct Professor since 1989 teaching courses in patent and copyright law at Western New England College School of Law in Springfield, Mass.
Chisholm’s office is one mile from Exit 2 of the Mass.
www.mjcpatents.com   (281 words)

  
 Mark Lazarowicz: Edinburgh North & Leith
Malcolm Chisholm, MSP for Edinburgh North and Leith
Malcolm was educated at George Watson’s College and later Edinburgh University.
Prior to this, he was Labour’s Scottish Health spokesperson in opposition and Minister for Local Government, Housing and Transport during the first few months of the Labour Government, vice convenor of the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Community Care Committee and member of the Equal Opportunities Committee between August 1999 and October 2000.
www.marklazarowicz.org.uk /malcolm.htm   (176 words)

  
 Chisholm moved as McAveety is sacked - Evening Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
MALCOLM Chisholm lost his job as Health Minister today in a Cabinet reshuffle by First Minister Jack McConnell.
Mr Chisholm is the highest profile person on the move in the shake-up in which Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister Frank McAveety was sacked.
But Mr Chisholm is staying on in the Cabinet as Communities Minister replacing Baillieston MSP Margaret Curran.
www.eveningtimes.co.uk /hi/news/5031141.html   (693 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Opinion - Columnists - Malcolm Chisholm scores a Pyrrhic victory
To Mr Chisholm, this is an ideological battle - he has rejected Tony Blair’s NHS reforms as "the forces of the defeated right".
The flaw in Mr Chisholm’s theory of government (or "public") control over the NHS is that it relies on the skill of bureaucrats.
They do not see why NHS Scotland, under Mr Chisholm, should stand as a depressingly quotable example to the entire developed world of how not to provide for the healthcare needs of a country in a truly modern, progressive way.
news.scotsman.com /columnists.cfm?id=1145192004   (1502 words)

  
 Two Ohio State Researchers Named To National Academy of Sciences
Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor of geological sciences and an expert on the effects that global climate change is having on the shrinking of glaciers and ice fields around the globe, was named.
Also elected was Malcolm Chisholm, a Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, professor of chemistry and leading researcher in the field of developing “smart” materials and innovative polymers.
Chisholm is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, der Deutsche Akademie fur Naturforscher-Leopoldina, as well as a corresponding fellow of the Royal Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland.
researchnews.osu.edu /archive/newnas.htm   (769 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Malcolm Chisholm, the Health Minister, attempted to underline the Executive's commitment to the pledge contained in the coalition partnership agreement following suggestions that the NHS was facing a staffing crisis.
Mr Chisholm was challenged at the Royal College of Nursing's annual conference by 200 nurses, who claimed that with the number of Scottish nurses only increasing by 0.4 per cent each year,the target would not be met until 2013.
Shona Robison, the SNP health spokesman, accused Mr Chisholm of misleading the public because they failed to take into account the number leaving the NHS.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/16/nnurse16.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/16/ixhome.html   (508 words)

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