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A pay hike for the 180,000 NHS employees in Scotland took the wage bill for 2022/23 up to £9.8bn, which Audit Scotland said was 23.5% higher than five years ago. The number of staff employed in ...

The greatest running cost of the NHS is its workforce. The authors show how this aspect of the NHS can too easily be neglected in the policy process, or discussed only in the context of concerns for ...

All NHS consultants in Scotland are to receive a six-figure salary after voting to accept a 10.5 per cent pay rise from SNP ministers. The deal, which will be backdated to April 1 this year ...

The SNP Government has been warned the NHS in Scotland is "dangerously understaffed" after health workers were found to have raised concerns 25,000 times in five years. Neil Gray, the Health ...

A nurse's death has been linked to her taking a weight-loss drug that was approved for use on the NHS. Susan McGowan ... Hospital Monklands in Airdrie, Scotland, for more than three decades ...

NHS Scotland is currently looking for people to relocate to a spectacular island. At the moment, the healthcare service is hiring a number of positions on the tiny Isle of Benbecula in the Outer ...

He can earn more than twice what he would get paid if he was on the NHS payroll, without the need ... to be rising in other parts of the UK. In Scotland it has doubled in the past year, while ...

Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray said it was "unacceptable" that so many patients felt they had no choice but to go private. Scotland's new health secretary said the NHS must reform and improve.

So how has NHS England slashed its backlogs? The number of two year waits has gone from a peak of 24,424 in January 2022 to just 124 by August this year, versus 7,146 in Scotland by the end of June.

Every penny we spend on hardware is a penny less to spend on patient outcomes,' says digital director and CISO Deryck Mitchelson Deryck Mitchelson, director of digital and CISO at NHS Scotland ...

The health secretary said he wants a national conversation on how to improve the NHS in Scotland. Neil Gray told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show that he was "relatively open to ideas" provided they ...