NHS boss Amanda Pritchard has admitted that “we’re not all brilliant performers at committee hearings” as she was asked about critical comments about her made by MPs.

Spending on the NHS has been going up for decades and is set to rise further. BBC Verify has examined some of the key numbers ...

Waiting times for heart appointments in Scotland are at their highest level on record, figures have shown. Data from Public ...

A lung health charity is calling on the Scottish ... as well easing the enormous pressures on an overwhelmed NHS.” Public Health Scotland recently urged all those in eligible groups to get ...

A think tank says an extra £618m for the health service has not yet translated into a significant increase in delivery for ...

Scotland's £90,000-a-year Patient Safety Commissioner role has been re-advertised for a third time after two failed recruitment attempts.

John Swinney admitted at a summit of health chiefs that he had an “electoral problem” with the state of Scotland’s NHS, it ...

Six new drugs, including a treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer, have been approved for use by the NHS in Scotland ... drugs for use in the health service, said there was ...

Economic experts say the Scottish Government must now deliver improvements to the NHS after new documents show an extra £1.5 ...

Scotland’s struggling NHS is spending £8.53 per pack of paracetamol under the SNP Government’s free prescription policy. Figures from the Public Health Scotland agency show nearly 2.5m ...

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