Scotland’s struggling NHS is spending millions of pounds a year on “useless frivolities” such as overseas travel, hospitality and entertainment, it has been alleged. Figures obtained from the ...

TRAINEE medics would be forced to work in Scotland for at least five years after they qualify under new plans. The rule for graduates aims to tackle the NHS staffing crisis across the country. The ...

Scottish Labour have been urged to come clean on 'creeping' and 'secret' plans to privatise Scotland's NHS following an intervention from a think tank founded by Tony Blair ...

Scotland’s struggling NHS cannot keep up with demand and needs “significant” reform to survive, a “staggeringly bleak” official audit has warned SNP ministers. Audit Scotland said waiting lists “are ...

Ahead of next week's Scottish Budget statement, the Scottish Conservative leader urges First Minister John Swinney to cut taxes Russell Findlay says taxes are too high and Scotland has a government ...

The Scottish government said the offer was fair and affordable NHS nurses, midwives, paramedics and other healthcare staff across Scotland have voted to accept a 8% pay deal over two years. Scotland's ...

A “FAILURE to recruit and retain front-line staff” has led the Scottish NHS to fork out more than £900 million on agency nurses and locum doctors since 2019, Scottish Labour said yesterday. Figures ...

Audit Scotland has warned that SNP pledges to improve the NHS have not been delivered despite extra funding and staff for the health service. Scotland’s spending watchdog has issued a stark warning ...

The number of Scots waiting more than 12 hours in an A&E ward is 99 times higher than in 2011, a shock report has found. Analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) was last night ...

NHS staff in Scotland have voted to accept an inflation-busting 8 per cent pay increase over the next two years. Nurses, midwives, ambulance workers, and non-medics including those in estates and ...

THE NHS in Scotland is ‘dying before our eyes’ and no longer meets the needs of the population, a senior doctor has warned. Dr Iain Kennedy, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in ...