NHS jobs targets under Scotland's Covid recovery plan are "unlikely to be met", Audit Scotland has warned. The public spending watchdog urged ministers to be "transparent" about hospital backlogs and ...

Senior doctors are leaving NHS Scotland as consultant vacancies reach 1,165-more than double official estimates -fuelling burnout and longer waits.

Scottish Labour’s proposals would mean medical graduates face an impossible choice: a financial penalty or insecure employment, say Elgan Manton-Roseblade and Joe Payne Last month, the Scottish Labour ...

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 ...

SCOTLAND’S NHS is losing doctors – with senior medics quitting under crushing pressure as the health service buckles under ...

Plans to tackle damaging workforce gaps and reduce excessive waiting lists in Scotland’s NHS are “doomed to fail” unless the true extent of vacancies for senior doctors is acknowledged, BMA Scotland ...

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 ...

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The Scottish budget comes at a time when our health and care services face unprecedented challenges. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...