The first minister says the NHS is making the recovery it needs to make from the Covid panic. "He's not living in the real ...

A report from Audit Scotland says one in nine hospital beds were occupied by patients who could have been discharged.

The latest figures show waits of more than a year fell from 78,000 in October to just over 70,000 in November.

Scotland’s NHS is continuing to get worse while hospitals in England are improving “substantially”, according to expert analysis that delivered a “damning verdict on the SNP’s mismanagement”. Nicola ...

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 ...

An NHS and social care app for Scotland is to be launched next year – but its full rollout will take until the end of the decade. Health Secretary Neil Gray said the project is the “single biggest ...

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 ...

THE NHS in Scotland is ‘dying before our eyes’ and no longer meets the needs of the population, a senior doctor has warned. Dr Iain Kennedy, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in ...

Patients can be delayed in hospital for a number of reasons, but the most common is the lack of a social care package.