Health

Half of Scottish adults live with long-term conditions and disease burden is set to climb 21% by 2043 while the integrated framework remains unpublished past.

Scotland wants every social worker and care assistant registered with the SSSC, but new fees and staffing gaps could undercut that goal.

Genomic surveillance shows Scotland’s meningococcal strains reset during COVID, nearly erasing the lineage behind the UK’s 2015 vaccine overhaul.

A former NHS Scotland strategy director wants an independent body to write health strategy, arguing four decades of political control produced only marginal change.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s new 3D exoscope helped 13-year-old Toby Peart recover quickly from brain tumour surgery, a first for Scotland.

Hormone-focused green prescriptions look new, but New Zealand began writing them in 1998 and Britain scaled them nationally, data now show.

A QMU graduate’s dissertation finds reusable period products promised under Scotland’s 2021 law remain hidden from students five years on.

Hamilton’s pilot Alcohol and Drug Problem Solving Court cut local drug deaths by up to 17% in two years, as Scotland’s prisons hit record highs.

New FoI data shows Scotland reviewed just 40 of 105 recorded deaths of children in care since 2021, despite double the death rate of other kids.

A Freedom of Information probe found over 5,000 NHS Scotland data breaches since 2023, with 182 staff disciplined and six cases sent to police.