Scotland’s NHS has “at no point” employed sufficient nursing staff to be able to deliver safe and effective care, despite legislation on safe staffing coming into force in 2024, claims a report.

Nursing unions in Scotland have announced plans for consulting their members on the 2025-26 NHS pay offer, with some ballots launching today. Unison and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have now ...

Staff at Scotland's State Hospital will be given access to massage chairs, craft sessions and mocktail making classes as part of a taxpayer-funded wellness programme. Home Showbiz ...

The SNP has been urged to “urgently improve NHS recruitment” after it was revealed there has been over £900 million spent on temporary nurses and consultants since 2019.

Ransomware hackers have continued an assault on National Health Service trusts across the United Kingdom by compromising multiple hospitals, exposing sensitive patient data, and disrupting ...

This means that, unlike in England, the government in Scotland needs agreement from unions before implementing the offer. The NHS unions in Scotland will now ballot their members on whether they think ...

NHS Scotland, AstraZeneca (AZ) and the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee have entered into a partnership to accelerate research into treating chronic kidney disease (CKD). The collaboration aims to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland's 14 health boards splashed out £29,606,336.61 on locum psychiatrists in 2022/23.

By the end of December 2023, 5.8% of nursing and midwifery posts in NHS Scotland were vacant and annual spending on bank and agency staff combined to fill nursing posts had increased by 39% ...

In September 2024, there were 17,219 individual doctors employed in secondary care, or the equivalent of 15,415 full-time doctors (FTE). This is a 36% increase since December 2012, when this dataset ...

NHS Scotland has announced a new £20 million lead advisor framework [Deadline: 24 July 2023] A total of five teams will be selected for the four-year framework which offers the opportunity to work on ...

The chairman of the British Medical Association in Scotland says the NHS is "broken" and cannot survive in its current state. Dr Iain Kennedy believes there needs to be a national discussion about ...