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?

Rising pressure: How Scotland can tackle its health challenges

Associate feature: Primary care services from your local community pharmacy

It’s galling that the menopause is seen as yet another thing that women should grit their teeth and get through

Former NHS chief calls for rethink of waiting time target

Terminally ill man issues assisted death plea to MSPs

Health: Jeane Freeman has spent the year fighting fires

Q&A: Jeane Freeman on the NHS, hospital infections and obesity

Drug deaths taskforce membership announced ahead of first meeting

Programme for Government: Focus on climate change, poverty and drugs deaths

NHS Scotland consultant and nursing vacancy rates hit ‘highest level since 2007’

Assisted dying campaigners renew calls for change in law

No-deal Brexit would have ‘potentially life-threatening consequences’ for disabled people

Chief medical officer recommends 'once for Scotland' consistency in cancer treatment

Calorie contents should be listed on all Scottish menus, Foods Standards Scotland recommends

Virtual GP appointments trialled in Lanarkshire

Health groups call for 'urgent' introduction of junk food price promotion restrictions

Dundee drug treatment system ‘fractured’ and better leadership needed

Fake psychiatrist’s Scottish patients having records reviewed

Scottish life expectancy stalls due to drug, dementia and heart disease deaths

Early cancer diagnosis more likely in ‘less deprived’ parts of Scotland: report

Blue water review finds ‘no causal link’ between cancers and chemical contamination

Older gay men put off from getting tested for HIV following 1980s homophobia, research finds

NHS Lothian paid £11.6m 'settlement' to kids hospital contractor

Nicola Sturgeon's TEDSummit speech