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Two large national NHS organisations are to merge under two ten-year frameworks to support NHS and social care reform unveiled by Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. Developed in ...

A Scottish university has launched a new, flexible route for healthcare support workers to train to become a learning disability nurse. The new ‘Earn as You Learn’ hybrid pathway on offer at Glasgow ...

Scotland’s First Minister has committed to detail a “new course to safeguard the NHS” in the coming weeks, including tackling delayed hospital discharges and investing in Scotland’s GPs. In a speech ...

The national rollout of specialist frailty services across all 30 of Scotland’s A&E departments is set to reduce the length of hospital stays and eventually bring down waiting lists, says Scotland’s ...

A housing project using innovative technologies and digital tools to help people live independently for as long as possible is being praised by Scotland’s Health Secretary. The Peoplehood Project, ...

A group of randomly chosen Scots will help MSPs come up with creative solutions to tackle drug deaths, Holyrood has announced – launching the people’s panel on drug harms. Composed of 25 people from ...

The average length of time people in Scotland can expect to live in good health has fallen to a near 10-year low according to the latest figures. Published today, the National Records of Scotland (NRS ...

During Climate Week this year, attendees to the United Nations Assembly in New York announced a new Global Commission to drive action on healthy indoor air. Among the global commissioners is ...

Scotland’s medicines review body has rejected a new early-stage Alzheimer’s drug, lecanemab, for use in NHS Scotland due to its high cost and “uncertainty” around its clinical effectiveness.

The Scottish government is to radically change the structure of NHS Scotland, reduce the number of councils and place the leadership of social care into the hands of the NHS under plans unveiled by ...

The extent of the reliance of Scotland’s care sector on lifeline international workers has been revealed in a survey of providers published today. With nine in 10 members of some teams coming from ...