Doctors in Scotland are suffering “stress and burnout” as growing NHS workloads take their toll, medical leaders today warned.  BMA Scotlan...

The NHS in Scotland is close to breaking point, with most nurses claiming they are forced to work overtime to meet patient needs, a new rep...

ONE PEOPLE FOR WORLD SOCIALISM With training numbers cut, budgets frozen – it costs on average £70,000 to educate and train a qualified...

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A leading Scots GP claims the NHS is profiting from allowing pregnant women's details to be sold to commercial companies, often witho...

The NHS is failing to provide needs-based care in areas of blanket deprivation, GPs working in Scotland's poorest areas will tell MSPs...

It’s estimated 5000 NHS workers, including around 2500 nurses, have lost their jobs in the last three years. NHS chiefs spent £94million on...

Elderly patients in care homes across Scotland are being prescribed powerful drug...

A total of 2,025,400 people had put their names forward for the NHS Organ Donor Register as of 31 March - almost 40% of the population. Acro...

The British Medical Association is poised to ballot its members on industrial action for the first time in 40 years. Under the Dept. of Heal...

Older patients are “not safe” on hospital wards in Scotland because of a lack of qualified nurses to care for them according to Royal Colleg...

What is the value of a few precious extra months of life? It's a very difficult question to answer, but if Scottish Medicines Consortiu...

Doctors are threatening their first wave of industrial action in nearly 40 years, after they overwhelmingly rejected proposed changes to th...

Hospital chiefs are discouraging “whistleblowing” nurses from reporting their concerns about patient safety and staffing levels, nursing lea...

New research by a leading charity reveals that hundreds of cancer patients are living close to the breadline due to their illness, with 73% ...

Professor David Cameron , an expert in breast cancer from Edinburgh University, said new treatments were increasingly being developed which...

Nurses are "propping up" the health service by consistently working over their contracted hours and providing last-minute shift co...

A senior consultant surgeon has spoken out against screening patients for bowel cancer in Scotland’s most deprived areas... because they are...

Previously reported here has been the inherent failure of the National Health Service due to the constraints of capitalism to offer full eff...

A poll by Macmillan Cancer Support suggests nearly half of cancer patients in England are being forced to cut back on basic necessities in ...