6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (576+ words) Ex-health secretary Michael Matheson warns that cutting NHS Scotland’s 14 boards to two will not alone improve outcomes for 571,054 waiting-list patients. In an Edinburgh television studio on Monday night, the man who once ran NHS Scotland delivered the verdict his former…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (897+ words) Merging Scotland’s NHS boards could jeopardise the corporate homicide investigation into deaths linked to Glasgow’s Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH), John Swinney has been warned. The flagship hospital, opened in 2015, has been at the centre of a long-running patient safety…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) North Lanarkshire Council has provided its annual assurance to the Scottish Housing Regulator that the local authority is meeting its responsibilities to tenants, residents and people who use the housing services. Housing convener Councillor Michael McPake has signed the council’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (372+ words) HEALTH unions have launched scathing attacks on First Minister John Swinney’s Programme for Government, branding it a “slash and burn programme for the NHS.” Mr Swinney’s plan for a wide-ranging restructuring of the Scottish public sector comes after his then…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) Last year, Denmark's hospitals turned away 200,000 patients who were referred to hospital by their doctors for special examinations, which corresponds to around one in seven patients. According to Jyllands-Posten, which was first to report the figure, referrals prior to 2018 were…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (812+ words) Scotland’s health board cull could make Scotland’s NHS “less safe” if SNP ministers use it simply as a cost-cutting exercise, doctors have warned. In an open letter penned to the Scottish Government, the country’s leading medical organisations have warned staff…...

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1+ week, 6+ day ago   (615+ words) What has been reported as the biggest shake-up of the NHS by the Scottish Government in decades has sparked major concerns for the future of NHS Highland. First Minister John Swinney will reveal his Programme for Government (PfG) on Tuesday…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (547+ words) The hospital's chief executive, Jennifer Kearney, followed by senior consultants wrote to the regional management in HSE Southwest last week where serious safety concerns linked to staff shortages and delays with recruitment were raised. The health minister has said there…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (234+ words) Our recent library event on nurse suffragettes has brought to light a possible historical connection between a nurse suffragette and our RCN Scotland HQ in Edinburgh. The event – ‘The fight for the vote: suffragettes and nursing’ – included a presentation from…...