President honour for professor

A FIFE consultant geriatrician has been appointed president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Professor Andrew Elder was announced as the president-elect at the c o l l e g e ’s a n n u a l S t Andrew’s Day Symposium. He is the first geriatrician to be elected to the role.

Educated at Edinburgh Medical School, Prof Elder has been an NHS consultant for 26 years.

Since 2013, he has also taught core bedside skills to trainee doctors in the USA, as a visiting professor and scholar at Stanford Medicine.

The college promotes the highest standards of patient care and Prof Elder is to promote and develop programmes of education and assessment for doctors in the UK and across the world.

He will also press for increased f unding of healthcare nationally and increased capacity for care.

He said: “I am deeply honoured to be the college’s next president.”

BOSSES at a wome n’s c h a r it y say they a re “d isappoi nted” a fter a su r vey revea led ma ny people believe men should be able to pay for sex.

More than 600 people, the vast majority of them female, took part in the online survey, carried out by Dundee Women Against Violence Partnership.

Participants’ views were clear on women’s place in society, the workplace and within relationships – however attitudes become mixed when questioned on paying for sex or women’s bodies.

For example, 19% of participants strongly agreed that men over 18 should be able to pay for sex, and 18% strongly disagreed that it should be against the law to pay for sex.

And 26% strongly disagreed that it should be against the law to post naked photos of women online without telling her.

Of the 621 participants, 77% identified as women. One question asked if women were too emotional to be effective leaders and 86% responded “completely disagree”.