{"id":19628,"date":"2026-02-07T09:50:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19628"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:50:33","slug":"former-health-secretary-jeane-freeman-dies-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=19628","title":{"rendered":"Former Health Secretary Jeane Freeman dies \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeane-Freeman.png\" alt=\"Jeane Freeman\" class=\"wp-image-94900 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"802\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeane-Freeman.png\" alt=\"Jeane Freeman\" class=\"wp-image-94900 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeane-Freeman.png 802w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeane-Freeman-600x383.png 600w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeane-Freeman-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jeane-Freeman-768x490.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Jeane Freeman: led the Covid response<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has died in hospital after a short illness. She was 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A former nurse, and civil servant, she initially entered politics as a special adviser to Labour First Minister Jack McConnell before joining the SNP and becoming MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She was appointed Health Secretary two years later, leading the government\u2019s response to the Covid pandemic, before standing down at the 2021 election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She ordered a public inquiry into the design, construction, commissioning and maintenance of Glasgow\u2019s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and a new children\u2019s hospital in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Born in 1953 and raised in Ayr she spent 12 years running social enterprise Apex Scotland, working with employers and former prisoners and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her work rehabilitating offenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">She chaired the board of the Golden Jubilee Foundation and was a member of the Parole Board for Scotland and the Judicial Appointments Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">First Minister John Swinney said: \u201cJeane devoted her life to serving the public, and I am shocked and saddened at her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIn her long and varied career, Jeane always had people at her heart and had an unrelenting aim to improve people\u2019s lives. Working alongside her as a Minister, I was always struck by her strong belief in the power of compassion and a desire for people to be treated always with dignity fairness, and respect \u2013 values she put at the heart of Scotland\u2019s first social security system.?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAs Health Secretary during the Covid pandemic, she faced up to the biggest\u00a0public health\u00a0crisis\u00a0Scotland has ever seen and steered a course through an immensely\u00a0difficult time\u00a0for our country\u00a0and our health service, working tirelessly and acting throughout with honesty and selflessness.?\u00a0?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI will miss her greatly, and my thoughts and deep condolences are with her partner Susan and\u00a0wider\u00a0family, and her many friends.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Health #Secretary #Jeane #Freeman #dies #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeane Freeman: led the Covid r&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,265,3533,12135,600,12134,12133,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}