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MSPs criticise ‘scant detail’ behind SNP plans for NHS overhaul

Cabinet Secretary for Health and Care of Scotland Angela Constance pictured earlier this year (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)placeholder image

Reader's Letters: Health Secretary out of touch with A&E crisis

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Michael Matheson warns slashing NHS boards alone won't boost outcomes

Neonatal intensive care in Scotland is to be centralised to just three units.placeholder image

Health secretary defends plans to centralise neonatal intensive care

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Senior doctors warn ‘all options on the table’ amid fury at pay rise

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Neil Gray must resign over Monklands ‘betrayal’, says ex SNP minister

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SNP halt plans for new £2.1bn Monklands Hospital over financial woes

Last year's winners at Scotland's Health Awards (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)placeholder image

Scotland's Health Awards 2026: Nominations open

Angela Constance was made health secretary last weekplaceholder image

Huge bowel cancer screening inequality in new Health Secretary's area

Gordon McKee (back row, second from left), Melanie Ward (back row, second from right) and Zubir Ahmed (from row, centre left) sat around Wes Streeting during his speechplaceholder image

Who are Streeting's allies? The Scots MPs who back ex-health secretary

The NHS Golden Jubilee surgical centre is one of five national treatment centres currently operationalplaceholder image

Doctors demand 'radical reform' amid national treatment centres delay

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Exclusive New health secretary told to reverse cuts for diabetes technology

Over 40,000 people have had to wait more than 24 hours in A&E since 2021.placeholder image

40,000 wait more than a day in A&E as nurses warn of 'high risk'

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Starmer under more threat as Burnham finds route back to Commons

Aberdeen-born politician Alistair Carns has only been an MP since 2024, having previously been an officer in the Royal Marines. He's priced at 14/1 for the job of Labour leader.placeholder image

Who is Al Carns? The Scots veteran tipped as PM contender

Wes Streeting had a meeting with Keir Starmer in Downing Streetplaceholder image

Streeting set to move on PM as SNP targets Labour rebels

Keir Starmer was smiling on Wednesday despite all that is going onplaceholder image

Analysis Carefree Keir Starmer mocks himself as Wes Streeting allies look glum

The media gathered in Downing Street during Cabinetplaceholder image

Analysis A chaotic day of ups and downs in Westminster - but Starmer hangs on

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgowplaceholder image

Mould growth found in cancer ward at QEUH, Health Secretary confirms

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgowplaceholder image

Exclusive Streeting: SNP has 'serious' questions to answer on hospital scandal

A person holds the order of service for the thanksgiving service for former Scottish health secretary Jeane Freeman at Bute Hall, Glasgow University.placeholder image

Thanksgiving service held for former health secretary Jeane Freeman

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Neil Gray reveals results of QEUH water and ventilation investigations

Keir Starmer could be heading out of Downing Stplaceholder image

Explainer Who could replace Keir Starmer? The MPs who could take over as PM

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'Most concerning': QEUH has not been fully validated by safety experts

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'Shameful' SNP under pressure to reassure patients QEUH is validated

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Bereaved mother accuses ministers of adding to pain in hospital row

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Nicola Sturgeon denies putting pressure on NHS chiefs to open QEUH

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgowplaceholder image

Hospital in fatal water contamination scandal 'opened too early'

Neil Gray, pictured at the Scottish Parliamentplaceholder image

Call for urgent Holyrood statement after hospital infections admission

Cabinet Health Secretary Neil Gray (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)placeholder image

Exclusive Ministers banned from buying tickets on work devices after Oasis gaff

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Sandie Peggie : SNP health secretary told to sack NHS Fife chief

Protesters outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh asking for a public inquiry into the care given to patients by "disgraced surgeon" Professor Sam Eljamel.placeholder image

Probe into Eljamel evidence destruction amid 'criminality' fear

Steve Cardownie will soon make his way to Ocean Terminal to get his flu jabplaceholder image

Flu vaccine plea as NHS braces for 'particularly difficult' season

Jeane Freeman was Health Secretary under Nicola Sturgeonplaceholder image

Former SNP Health Secretary says governments to blame for NHS state

NHS Scotland sickness rates have risen to a ten-year high.placeholder image

SNP admit NHS will have to axe procedures amid 'sacrifice' warning

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) and Health Secretary Wes Streeting (right).placeholder image

Farage attacked over 'racist leaflets' at Scottish by-election

Michael Matheson, pictured in Holyrood in 2024placeholder image

Ex-ombudsman to review MSP complaints process after Matheson scandal

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Exclusive GPs call on next government to end 'neglect' and solve NHS 'crisis'

The Scottish Government is being warned the health service is on the brink of total collapse.placeholder image

NHS 'lurching towards winter collapse', but SNP insist they have plan

Bob Vylan performing on the West Holts stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. Picture: PAplaceholder image

BBC has 'questions to answer' over Bobby Vylan Glastonbury chants

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks outside her home after being cleared by police in Operation Branchformplaceholder image

Sturgeon reveals her vote on assisted dying in 'hardest decision'

The Tories say patients' lives are being "put at risk" after figures revealed some waited almost five years for key diagnostic testsplaceholder image

Health board escalated to stage 4 as risk branded 'hugely concerning'

A health board in Scotland has been escalated to stage four - the second highest level of risk - with external consultants to be brought in.

Greig Rooney, Managing Director at Valneva Scotland Ltd, and Scottish Government Health and Social Care Secretary Neil Grayplaceholder image

Health Secretary tours site of Scotland’s largest vaccine producer

An elderly woman in a wheelchair is assisted by a care-worker as she lays flowers outside Windsor Castle following the death of Queen Elizabethplaceholder image

Exclusive SNP facing social care 'meltdown' as £560m black hole risking services

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iPad row Michael Matheson to stand down as MSP next year

Health Secretary Neil Gray (left) has spoken on the case of nurse Sandie Peggie (right)placeholder image

SNP minister refuses to back Sandie Peggie in trans changing room row

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Michael Matheson: iPad scandal got 'blown out of all proportion'

Health Secretary Neil Gray has said he will take responsibility if the SNP government's bid to reduce NHS waiting times to 12 months by 2026 fails (Picture: Andrew Milligan)placeholder image

Scottish Tories to bring vote calling on Neil Gray to resign

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Swinney issues declaration on under-fire health secretary Neil Gray

John Swinney will set out his plans to revive the NHS (Picture: Lesley Martin)placeholder image

John Swinney pledges 150,000 extra appointments in bid to revive NHS

Health Secretary Neil Gray during a visit to Forth Valley Royal Hospital. Picture: Michael Gillenplaceholder image

Swinney told to sack 'disgraced' Health Secretary after limogate row

Nine in 10 of those surveyed in Scotland said patient safety is being compromisedplaceholder image

‘Devastating' nurse testimonies lay bare crisis in Scotland's NHS

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Number of nursing students accepted is 'a worry', Neil Gray says

Health Secretary Neil Gray.placeholder image

Neil Gray to take responsibility if SNP miss NHS waiting times targets

Health Secretary Neil Gray apologised to MSPs for using a Scottish Government car to attend football matches involving Aberdeen FCplaceholder image

SNP chief 'struggling' to understand why Gray is a scandal

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Analysis Final whistle yet to blow on Neil Gray football chauffeur row

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