During the Covid pandemic she oversaw the Test and Protect contact tracing system and the vaccination programme.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The leader of the Scottish Labour party has pledged to ‘make sure’ that nurses trained in Scotland ‘build their careers’ in ...

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A study has shown that without investment psychiatry in Scotland will “remain under severe strain” as posts across the ...

Ananda's CEO, Melissa Sturgess commented: "The personal and societal burden of endometriosis is staggering and it is appalling that more is not being done to find useful treatments for this ...

THE interim chief executive of cash-strapped NHS Ayrshire and Arran has admitted the board's current losses are "unsustainable". With local services facing a potential £33.2 million shortfall in the ...

Medical students in Scotland are sitting on lecture hall floors and facing overcrowded placements as class sizes surge, a BMA Scotland report warns.

The NHS and Catholic church whistleblower Brian Devlin has died aged 65 as tributes describe him as “a man who would do what ...