Last week the United States military stationed Osprey aircraft on a small airfield on Benbecula in the Scottish Hebrides as ...

One of the NHS’s biggest problems is that one in nine beds is occupied by someone who does not need to be there ...

Resident doctors, nurses, and all National Health Service staff enjoy the respect of millions and can mobilise mass ...

At today’s session of First Minister’s Questions, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP raised the case of a woman from the Far North who has been stuck in hospital for over 400 days ...

Two members of staff at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have been left "grateful" and "humbled" after being awarded MBEs in the ...

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There is currently a massive shortage of doctors in the NHS and international medical graduates are critical to addressing that, making up just over 40% of the nation’s medical workforce. Yet compared ...

Radiology waiting lists up by 88 per cent since 2017. Private healthcare admissions booming with patients in chronic pain. The median wait time for an NHS 24 call up from nine seconds in 2014 to ...

THE NHS is in failing health despite 130 SNP strategies since 2007, a leading surgeon will warn today. The Scottish Government has published a new health strategy every seven weeks on average since ...

SERIOUS changes are needed in the direction and leadership of the NHS in Scotland if it is to reverse “decline,” an independent report warned today. Retired consultant surgeon Mike McKirdy, a former ...

The NHS in Scotland is struggling to meet targets despite a large £3billion real-terms increase in spending. That is the damning conclusion of public finance watchdog Audit Scotland in a report on our ...

This is unreliable. The latest estimates from Public Health Scotland suggest one in nine Scots—or 618,477 people—were on a waiting list as of October 2025. “One in six Scots is on an NHS waiting list.