Long waiting times seem to be the norm across the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Government has often pointed to funding problems and 14 years of austerity from the Tories. But surely getting ...

The cost of the maintenance backlog in Scotland’s NHS has risen to more than £1.3 billion, figures show. Data released following a freedom of information request from the Scottish Conservatives ...

“The maintenance backlog costs facing Scotland’s NHS have hit staggering levels,” he said. The eye-watering sum of money that is going to be needed to tackle these maintenance costs only ...

The maintenance backlog facing Scotland’s NHS has hit £1.3 billion, new figures have revealed. A Freedom of Information request showed that the maintenance backlog had hit record levels.

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“NHS bosses warn that hospitals in England are being hit by a tidal wave of flu and other winter viruses.” Presuming Hadrian’s Wall has not prevented this “tidal wave” flooding Scotland, this headline ...

but rejects the BMA Scotland’s description of the NHS as being in a state of “perma-crisis”. Gray said in an interview on the BBC’s The Sunday Show that some of the pressures within the NHS are ...

Scotland’s Health Secretary has said “our NHS needs this Budget to pass” as he urged other parties to unite behind it. Neil Gray said that if approved by Parliament, the 2025/26 Budget will deliver ...

In a briefing session for MSPs at Holyrood – organised by Labour MSP for Central Scotland, Richard Leonard ... from the Scottish Government and the NHS amounts to an annual revenue loss ...

NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) has said there is “currently no risk to services” and has established an incident response team to handle the situation. Steven Flockhart, director of digital and ...

It is, for example, beyond disgraceful that nearly 11,000 people have been waiting more than two years for NHS treatment in Scotland compared to just 113 in the whole of England, and it is indeed ...