Health

Scottish Government schedules drugs conference for day before UK summit amid ‘squabbles’ over drugs policy

The Scottish Government said the conference would centre on people with lived experience of drug use and would inform the Scottish input to the UK Drugs Summit

Nick Nairn: 'We need an empathetic government to tackle poor Scottish diet'

Celebrity chef Nick Nairn has been campaigning to improve Scotland's diet for thirty years, but has anything actually changed in that time?

Rise in number of people living with cancer

Lord Brodie to chair public inquiry into two Scottish hospitals

'Just because someone looks fine, doesn’t mean that they can’t be ill': Living with an invisible disability

Nurses report they have 'never felt pressure like this'

New bill places duty on health boards to permit self-referral for victims of rape and sexual assault

Scotland’s first heroin assisted treatment service opens in Glasgow

More counsellors to provide support to Scottish school pupils

Chair of NHS Tayside stands down after less than a month in the role

Calls for better support for transvaginal mesh survivors

Glasgow health board placed under special measures over water infection crisis

Health Secretary faces criticism over ‘underwhelming’ hospital statement to parliament

Jeane Freeman to deliver statement to parliament on QEUH

It's good to talk: a focus on men's mental health

Jeane Freeman to face health committee questions over hospital issues

Jeane Freeman under pressure after Glasgow hospital whistleblower reveals water infection death

Calls for mental health support for people living with diabetes

Comment: How a storytelling revolution has freed the women of Northern Ireland

Aberdeen and Edinburgh ranked among top UK cities to live and work in

NHS Scotland adopts five new medicines

Nicola Sturgeon says NHS ‘not for sale at any price’

From period poverty to period dignity

Midwives call for more training in perinatal mental health

Scottish Government announces review of handling of prison deaths

Exposing the bias in biology: heart disease in women