"Her husband complained about a delay in the ambulance arriving and taking her to hospital. He also complained that no arrangements were made to take his wife home after attending A&E, meaning in total she had spent 20 hours without fluids."
This happened in 2006 and the Scotsman.com is just now reporting this on 4/23/09? I would say not only is their health care deplorable, their reporting of news isn't the greatest either.