The SNP has been urged to “urgently improve NHS recruitment” after it was revealed there has been over £900 million spent on temporary nurses and consultants since 2019. Scotland’s health b ...

The SNP has been urged to “urgently improve NHS recruitment” after it was revealed there has been over £900 million spent on temporary nurses and consultants since 2019.

World Cancer Day is an opportunity to inspire Scotland’s diverse healthcare innovators to unite for patient equity in the ...

Patients in Scotland are not getting “the right care in the right place at the right time”, John Swinney has said ...

John Swinney laid out a plan to improve Scotland’s ailing health service in a speech in Edinburgh earlier this week.

More than 10,000 patients across Scotland have benefitted from da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery since 2021, following a ...

Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our ... NHS staff, and meets the needs of future generations of patients ...

More than £34m has been spent developing plans for five delayed NHS treatment centres which are meant to deal with a backlog of operations. Plans to build the national treatment centres (NTCs) at ...

First Minister John Swinney’s plans to ‘renew’ the NHS in Scotland ... of our NHS is vitally important to the SNP Government, which is why we have announced record funding for health and ...

John Swinney admitted at a summit of health chiefs that he had an “electoral problem” with the state of Scotland’s NHS ... a permanent crisis in our NHS, yet all he has got to offer is ...

Nurse leaders have warned that Scotland lacks the staff to deliver care to all who need it, as new figures reveal Scottish health boards have ... services within NHS Scotland, allowing us to maximise ...