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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 ...

Tom Arthur MSP is to take over from Maree Todd MSP as the new Minister for Social Care and Mental Wellbeing, following a ministerial shake up. Former Minister for Employment and Investment Mr Arthur ...

A strong programme focussed on setting a progressive new healthcare agenda has been announced for Scotland’s Health Research and Innovation Conference, taking place in Edinburgh next month. Hosted by ...

Scotland’s community link workers are to be recognised next week at an awards ceremony at this year’s Scottish Community Link Worker Network Conference hosted by Voluntary health Scotland. The only ...

Scotland’s highly successful Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Event is returning for a fourth year, and the community are urged to get involved with a call for impactful abstracts now open. The ...

The Scottish government is to abandon structural reform of Scotland’s social care system, blaming a lack of support in the Scottish parliament and beyond. Social Care Minister Maree Todd told MSPs ...

Scotland’s minister responsible for social prescribing says the nation’s community link workers should be proud of the work they are doing and can look to the future with confidence. Her comments came ...

An international audience in Glasgow is to hear that Scotland is suffering an epidemic of frailty, accelerated by the pandemic, but that many of the approaches to try to reduce falls and fractures are ...

An Edinburgh Deep End GP working in Wester Hailes has been elected unopposed as the new Chair of the British Medical Association’s Scottish Council. Dr Nóra Murray-Cavanagh, the first woman elected to ...

Scotland's rivers, lochs and coastlines are delivering health benefits worth up to £123 million a year in the Forth region alone, according to new research. That research gives us hard evidence of ...