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| Scottish cabinet reshuffle: Nicola Sturgeon rumoured to be leaving health role | Scottish cabinet reshuffle: Nicola Sturgeon rumoured to be leaving health role |
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| A Scottish government cabinet reshuffle is expected to see Nicola Sturgeon step down from her role as health secretary, BBC Scotland has learned. | A Scottish government cabinet reshuffle is expected to see Nicola Sturgeon step down from her role as health secretary, BBC Scotland has learned. |
| It is understood that Ms Sturgeon, who is also deputy first minister, will remain in government. | It is understood that Ms Sturgeon, who is also deputy first minister, will remain in government. |
| First Minister Alex Salmond is expected to release more details later. | First Minister Alex Salmond is expected to release more details later. |
| Ms Sturgeon has been at the heart of government, playing a key role when the SNP won minority control in 2007 and again when it won a majority in 2011. | Ms Sturgeon has been at the heart of government, playing a key role when the SNP won minority control in 2007 and again when it won a majority in 2011. |
| Nicola Sturgeon is one of Alex Salmond's most trusted ministers with a history of handling some of the Scottish government's highest profile and controversial policy areas. | |
| As health secretary, she won praise for her management of the swine flu epidemic, the passage of minimum pricing legislation and most recently a consultation on introducing same-sex marriage in Scotland. | |
| Ms Sturgeon is now expected to leave health but remain as deputy first minister - with speculation she will be given responsibility for handling constitutional details ahead of the independence referendum. | |
| If those rumours are confirmed, it will be her greatest career challenge to date. | |
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| BBC Scotland political correspondent Raymond Buchanan said the MSP could be given a new role handling constitutional details ahead of the independence referendum, which is expected in autumn 2014. | |
| The 42-year-old law graduate entered the Scottish Parliament when it was created in 1999. | |
| In the election of that year, Ms Sturgeon became an MSP for the Glasgow region. She was later elected the constituency member for Govan. | |
| After gaining a law degree from Glasgow University, Ms Sturgeon worked as a solicitor in the Drumchapel Law and Money Advice Centre in Glasgow. | |
| She was appointed deputy first minister and health secretary following the May 2007 election. | |
| Prior to that, Ms Sturgeon had been the party's spokeswoman for education. |