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A new super-hospital is being planned to serve the whole of Ayrshire, the Ayrshire Post can exclusively reveal. Health chiefs, alarmed at the decline of both Ayr and Crosshouse, want to construct a giant replacement for both. Land close to the Dutch House Roundabout at Monkton has been...

NHS Shetland nurse Alison Irvine has been named as Nurse of the Year at the Scottish Health Awards ceremony, which was held in Edinburgh on Thursday night. Irvine, a diabetes nurse specialist has been awarded the accolade in recognition of the work she does to support people with diabetes to...

Island health chiefs have been forced to draw up contingency plans in case there is an exodus of top doctors after Brexit. The move emerged as NHS Western Isles revealed that more than a third of its consultants and three-quarters of its anaesthetists were born in other EU states – most in...

A call for a national campaign to raise awareness of sepsis has been rejected by the Scottish government, BBC Scotland can reveal. Campaigners described the decision as "absurd" and "complacent" and said ministers were putting lives at risk. Sepsis kills about 3,500 people every year in...

The number of patients NHS Grampian hospitals readmits within 48 hours of being discharged early due to staff and bed shortages is three times the national average. An NHS audit showed figures for patients returning because they still needed care in high-dependency units was more than 6% in its...

Health chiefs are facing the challenge of shaving more than £27 million off all spending at a North-east health board – and the challenge has already got harder. NHS Grampian, which is funded by the Scottish Government to provide public health services across the region, was given £867.2m to...

NHS Ayrshire and Arran lost nearly 200,000 working hours due to work-related stress, depression and anxiety last year. The figures were uncovered by the GMB union through a Freedom of Information request. It was told employees had been absent for 198,162 hours due to stress. The union’s...

A "game-changing" drug which dramatically reduces the chances of being infected with HIV is to be made available on the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has agreed to approve the treatment, which is known as Prep. Scientists have found that a daily dose of the drug can...

An NHS Education for Scotland initiative is helping displaced doctors to continue practising medicine. ‘You can’t imagine how stressful it was’ From the age of three, Irfan Ali knew that he wanted to be a doctor. Years later his dream of working in medicine became a reality, but his happiness...

DR PHILIPPA WHITFORD MP, the SNP’s Westminster health spokesperson, has said that there could be damaging repercussions in the Scottish NHS as a result of the decline of the English health service following one of the worst winters for the NHS England in recent years. The British Red Cross...