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Dr. Peter Terry, the head of the British Medical Association Scotland who was to speak at the group's annual conference in Liverpool, says the country's poorest residents have seen very little improvement in their "appalling" health record, The Scotsman reported Saturday.

Terry told the newspaper Scotland needs to take radical steps to change the situation, such as moving people away from its heavily industrialized Central Belt, where job losses and the fall of traditional industries have resulted in a large swath of poverty.

"We still have an absolutely appalling health record", he said. "But whether or not the health service can address that I am not sure. We do our best but fundamentally these are the illnesses associated with poor education and deprivation and various other problems, which I think will take longer to solve."

Terry suggested that maybe the country needs "to look at new industries and redistribute the population within Scotland . But that's going to take a long time."

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