A new NHS improvement plan in Scotland has received a lukewarm response from nursing leaders in the country who questioned its deliverability. Scottish health secretary Neil Gray has this week ...

Angela Chesworth says that returning to her previous weight is her biggest fear Very few people are currently being prescribed drugs for weight loss on the NHS in Scotland, research by BBC ...

Oliver Kemp, CEO of Prostate Cancer Research, said: “We are delighted by the SMC’s positive decision to approve the combination of talazoparib and enzalutamide for use within NHS Scotland in men with ...

Enhertu was approved for use in Scotland in December 2023 but was rejected for use on NHS England in March 2024 by NICE because it was too expensive. NICE chief executive Dr Samantha Roberts said ...

Two new drugs to treat prostate and liver cancer have been given the green light for use by the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) announced it had recommended the treatments ...

The experience allowed an insight into the current care and waits in Scotland’s NHS. From my own care path to fellow patients’, what I found was deeply troubling. My route into the belly ...

the EHRC also wrote to Health Secretary Neil Gray asking the minister to "consider how the Scottish Government can play a role in ensuring that NHS Scotland and other bodies are meeting their ...

Very few people are currently being prescribed drugs for weight loss on the NHS in Scotland, research by BBC Scotland News has established. Medications like Mounjaro and Wegovy have been hailed as ...

Carol Mochan, Labour’s spokeswoman for women’s health, said: “In communities right across Scotland, women are being badly failed at the hands of the SNP. As our NHS fell into crisis on the ...

NHS England, the administrative body that runs the national health service, will be abolished in a bid to slash red tape, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The prime minister said he was axing the ...

Digital services in general will be increased across Scotland throughout 2026, in a bid to encourage people to find local services and receive NHS messages online. He told BBC Scotland News ...

NHS England will be abolished with the loss of 9,000 jobs to divert more money to frontline services and bring management “back into democratic control”. Sir Keir Starmer said an “arms ...