Angela Chesworth says that returning to her previous weight is her biggest fear Very few people are currently being prescribed drugs for weight loss on the NHS in Scotland, research by BBC ...

A new NHS improvement plan in Scotland has received a lukewarm response from nursing leaders in the country who questioned its deliverability. Scottish health secretary Neil Gray has this week ...

Two new drugs to treat prostate and liver cancer have been given the green light for use by the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) announced it had recommended the treatments ...

Oliver Kemp, CEO of Prostate Cancer Research, said: “We are delighted by the SMC’s positive decision to approve the combination of talazoparib and enzalutamide for use within NHS Scotland in men with ...

But a Scottish Government spokesperson said there was “no NHS Scotland entity equivalent to NHS England”. “We have 22 health boards in Scotland that are accountable to the Health and Social ...

Enhertu was approved for use in Scotland in December 2023 but was rejected for use on NHS England in March 2024 by NICE because it was too expensive. NICE chief executive Dr Samantha Roberts said ...

the equivalent bodies for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland cannot be abolished by the prime minister. The prime minister has said abolishing the body will bring management of the NHS "back ...

Endometriosis treatment in Scotland is available at specialist centres and through the NHS. Options include hormone treatments or surgery. Hormone treatments stop the ovaries from producing ...

NHS England, the administrative body that runs the national health service, will be abolished in a bid to slash red tape, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The prime minister said he was axing the ...

The Green Finance Institute is expanding its green mortgage training programme to Scotland. The certificate in green mortgages is designed to give advisers and property professionals a greater ...

A new pill designed to transform the treatment of endometriosis has been approved for use on the NHS in England and Wales. But exactly how does it work, and is it available in Scotland?

The 21-page document, published on Monday, largely reiterated commitments made by the First Minister in a speech in January, where he pledged to modernise and renew Scotland’s beleaguered NHS ...