The future of the NHS and health was fiercely debated by party leaders in Scotland in Tuesday night's BBC Scotland debate. Yet health is a devolved issue - meaning Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak will ...

Scotland's NHS is unable to meet the growing demand for health services, a spending watchdog has warned. A review by Audit Scotland said the increased pressure on the NHS was now having a direct ...

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A rugby fan returning from watching the national team in Italy was Scotland's first confirmed case of Covid four years ago. Within weeks the country was in lockdown and the NHS was facing its toughest ...

Scottish Labour has argued the figures show Scotland’s NHS ‘cannot cope’ ...

Doctors have set up Scotland's first specialist clinic to treat the alarming numbers of young people who have severely ...

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THE £200,000-a-year civil servant in charge of our health service has failed to visit a single hospital in more than a year. Caroline Lamb Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director-General Health ...

PATIENT safety is at risk amid a massive rise in serious clinical blunders in Scotland’s NHS, critics claimed. Rivals called on Health Secretary Neil Gray to “take his head from the sand and act” ...

NHS leaders in Scotland have discussed abandoning the founding principles of the service by having the wealthy pay for treatment. The discussion of a "two-tier" health service is mentioned in draft ...