The NHS cannot tackle the health gap between rich and poor by itself and can only provide a "sticking plaster" for such inequali...

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...

 Scotland’s biggest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s catering budget was slashed last year by £1million and documents released...

In America Obamacare, reforms to the health system of that coutry has been called “creeping socialism” by the free-marketeers and the A...

Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) in Scotland, hit at the NHS Trusts.  "We now see health boards ...

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

A woman awaiting a transplant for a rare condition, atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome (aHUS), an inherited condition that has destroyed ...

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

Patients are being put at risk in Scotland by a lack of consultants and a shortage of acute hospital beds the Royal College of Physicians o...

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

Major trauma, the commonest killer of children and adults under 45, accounts for 1,300 deaths every year in Scotland. Major trauma often in...

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...

An estimated 182,000 people in Scotland have coronary heart disease (CHD), around 3.3% of the population. Rates of heart disease in Scotland...

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...