A revised Hospital at Home service was supposed to 'go live' in Glasgow on November 8. Instead the service - designed to keep patients out of hospital - has been suspended on the cusp of winter, with the revamped model not expected to become operational until some time in 2025.
A new paper from scientists at St Andrews University has highlighted how a routine eye test used worldwide to diagnose life- and sight-threatening conditions in infants is skewed by a 'colonial' racial bias.
The annual Mental Health Inpatient Census has led to criticism that too many patients are stuck in hospital long after they are ready to go home.
Former health secretary Jeane Freeman is giving evidence to the UK Covid inquiry as it examines the impact of the pandemic on healthcare. Humza Yousaf has also given evidence.
Scientists have been exploring ways to use bacteria to kill cancer since the 1800s, but progress has been stymied by the risks. Now, a breakthrough by researchers in Glasgow and Birmingham have discovered a way to make it safe in bowel cancer.
The death of a Scottish nurse as a result of complications after taking the drug Mounjaro for weight loss has highlighted the potential dangers of drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro.
A new exhibition at Glasgow Royal Infirmary is shedding light on the city's last outbreak of smallpox, in 1950, and its parallels with Covid.
The heads of 14 hospice charities in Scotland say they are in the grip of an "insurmountable funding gap" as a result of recent hikes in NHS Scotland staff pay which they cannot afford to match, and the looming rise in national insurance contributions.
More and more patients in Scotland are living with multiple chronic conditions - but some combinations are more high risk than others. Can we do more to reduce winter pressure on the NHS from unplanned hospital admissions and deaths?
