Health Secretary

Michael Matheson

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

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

Health secretary defends plans to centralise neonatal intensive care

Doctors have reacted angrily to a Scottish government pay deal

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

Monklands Hospital in Airdrie

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

Monklands Hospital

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

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

Scotland's Health Awards 2026: Nominations open

Angela Constance was made health secretary last week

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 speech

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 operational

Doctors demand 'radical reform' amid national treatment centres delay

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.

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

Andy Burnham

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.

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Wes Streeting had a meeting with Keir Starmer in Downing Street

Streeting set to move on PM as SNP targets Labour rebels

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

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

The media gathered in Downing Street during Cabinet

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

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow

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

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow

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.

Thanksgiving service held for former health secretary Jeane Freeman

Neil Gray reveals results of QEUH water and ventilation investigations

Keir Starmer could be heading out of Downing St

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

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow

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

Bereaved mother accuses ministers of adding to pain in hospital row

Nicola Sturgeon denies putting pressure on NHS chiefs to open QEUH

The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow

Hospital in fatal water contamination scandal 'opened too early'

Neil Gray, pictured at the Scottish Parliament

Call for urgent Holyrood statement after hospital infections admission

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

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

Sandie Peggie outside the Edinburgh Tribunals Service

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.

Probe into Eljamel evidence destruction amid 'criminality' fear

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

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

Jeane Freeman was Health Secretary under Nicola Sturgeon

Former SNP Health Secretary says governments to blame for NHS state

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

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

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

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

Michael Matheson, pictured in Holyrood in 2024

Ex-ombudsman to review MSP complaints process after Matheson scandal

File photo of a doctor checking a patient's blood pressure

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.

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: PA

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 Branchform

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 tests

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

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

Health Secretary tours site of Scotland’s largest vaccine producer

Neil Gray expressed concerns over nursing numbers

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

Health Secretary Neil Gray.

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 FC

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

Neil Gray

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

Neil Gray

Breaking Neil Gray apologises for 'impression given' by football chauffeur row

Neil Gray is due to make a statement at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday

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