Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced a review into how health boards use cash donated to NHS endowment funds following a scandal at NHS Tayside. The Scottish Government was forced
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A health board’s treatment of 14 breast cancer patients who died will be reviewed by an independent expert after bosses admitted hundreds of patients were given lower doses of chemotherapy.
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More than 600 emergency Caesarean sections and up to 100 stillbirths could be prevented each year if NHS hospitals followed official guidelines on multiple births, a study has found. The
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The routine vaccination of schoolgirls with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Scotland has led to a dramatic reduction in cervical disease in later life, new research suggests. HPV is
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Two bereaved women who lost loved ones are calling for a full review of the system, arguing the men were let down by Scotland’s mental health services. Karen McKeown and
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More people with dementia should be given music or dance therapy in a bid to prevent them being “over-medicalised”, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock said that while guidance
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A medical cannabis company has “saved” the life of a severely epileptic girl by giving her free access to treatment not provided to her by the NHS, according to her
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Four more healthcare professionals have been arrested over the suspected poisoning of patients at a hospital stroke unit. Two women and one man were previously arrested after Lancashire Police was
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The number of patients stuck in hospital despite being well enough to leave has increased by 9% in a year, official figures show. The latest NHS Scotland Information Services Division
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Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has told Health Secretary Jeane Freeman she should “lift her head from a spreadsheet” and look at the reality of health and social care
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