Jeane Freeman, who has died aged 72 four weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, was a Labour-turned-SNP feminist who became a protégée of Nicola Sturgeon and was Scotland’s Cabinet ...

Scottish Labour have been urged to come clean on 'creeping' and 'secret' plans to privatise Scotland's NHS following an intervention from a think tank founded by Tony Blair ...

SCOTLAND needs to get healthier or faces a budget black hole of up to £14billion a year in the decades to come. Independent forecasters revealed our ageing population means unaffordable levels of NHS ...

Half of Scots adults are suffering from long term health problems as sickness levels soar to new records under the SNP. The Scottish Health Survey found a staggering 50 per cent of people reported a ...

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Health Secretary Neil Gray is encouraging everyone to nominate those who have gone above and beyond in health and social care. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

The number of people in Scotland waiting more than a year for an NHS appointment or treatment has continued to fall, new official figures show. Public Health Scotland's latest statistics show the ...

The Scottish government said the offer was fair and affordable NHS nurses, midwives, paramedics and other healthcare staff across Scotland have voted to accept a 8% pay deal over two years. Scotland's ...

Scotland is facing a looming fiscal crisis as an ageing population and persistently low birth rates drive up public spending over the next five decades, according to the Scottish Fiscal Commission ...

Former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman has told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry she believed Scotland avoided a “VIP lane” for procuring personal protective equipment (PPE) due to devolution. Ms ...

Jo Farrell said her frontline cops are now spending more time dealing with health-related incidents than they are on primary duties ...