“Despite ongoing pressures on services, recent statistics from Public Health Scotland show progress is being made, with a ...

Flu activity in Scotland has decreased for the second consecutive week, though the Health Secretary has warned the virus will continue to spread over the festive season and into February and March.

Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said the figures "demonstrate that the SNP cannot be trusted to cut waiting times ...

Public Health Scotland (PHS) has shared data revealing the number of outbreaks and illnesses caused by different pathogens in 2022 and 2023. Surveillance of outbreaks in Scotland was suspended due to ...

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Patients can be delayed in hospital for a number of reasons, but the most common is the lack of a social care package.

Cases of Legionnaires’ disease have more than trebled in Scotland over the past three years, new figures showed. Cases of the lung infection fell to just 16 in 2021, but since then have risen, ...

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