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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 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 new multi-partner collaboration led by Heriot Watt University has set out its vision to use health and care engineering to accelerate medical breakthroughs, tackle global health challenges, and ...

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 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 ...

In the first of a series of shorts hosted by national charity Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD), attendees heard that stigma around with alcohol and drug use worsens people’s ...

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 ...

Successful use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the detection of lung cancer across NHS Grampian could now be embedded in lung cancer care across Scotland. NHS Grampian’s GRACE project first ...

Doctors are struggling to get a job, with BMA Scotland warning that the deepening unemployment crisis caused by chronic underinvestment in training posts requires urgent action. Despite rising patient ...

Ahead of the formal launch of the National Green Theatres Programme, the Scottish government and NHS Scotland have announced that a greenhouse gas used as an anaesthetic in hospitals will be ...

Patients with neurological conditions and their carers are “falling between the cracks” in Scotland’s health system, according to a report which suggests two-thirds of the one million Scots living ...