Mr Wilson has now submitted a Report to Prevent Future Deaths to Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ... in this case required an element of caution, the fluid balance charts had not ...

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 ...

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 spent £521m on agency nurses in the last six years. The ...

Scotland’s struggling NHS is spending £8.53 per pack of paracetamol under the SNP Government’s free prescription policy. Figures from the Public Health Scotland agency show nearly 2.5m ...

Six new drugs, including a treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer, have been approved for use by the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has given the green light ...

John Swinney admitted at a summit of health chiefs that he had an “electoral problem” with the state of Scotland’s NHS, it has been alleged. The First Minister invited leaders from a range ...

More than £900 million has been spent on agency nurses and locum doctors in Scotland’s NHS since 2019. The SNP is now being told to “urgently improve NHS recruitment”, after new figures ...

David Phillips of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that the NHS had failed to return to pre-Covid productivity levels. Extra funding for Scotland's NHS has not yet translated into a ...

Since 2020/21, more than 4,000 youngsters, some still nursery age, have been referred by NHS Scotland health boards for weight management assistance. The specialist services involve a host of ...

The recent Royal College of Nursing Scotland report described harrowing ... of talent coming forward is hitting taxpayers hard. Our NHS spent more than £900 million on agency nurses and locum ...