Health Archive

GPs have accused the Scottish Government of imposing a "demoralising" pay deal that will widen the gap in earnings between doctors north of the Border and their colleagues in the rest of the UK.

SENIOR Scottish doctors have welcomed the first sign that Health Secretary Alex Neil will halt the cutting of hospital beds.

ALL children in Scotland aged between 10 and 17  are to be offered a vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) under a new programme being rolled out by the Scottish Government.

A teenager who lost an arm and leg as a baby has become the first person in the UK to receive a revolutionary bionic hand that can be manipulated by remote control.

MORE than 155,000 NHS staff in Scotland are having to wait for a promised pay rise which has already been given to health service workers south of the Border.

People who have liver transplants have double the risk of acquiring a largely incurable cause of blindness in the elderly.

Margaret Watt, chair of Scotland Patients Association, said she had been calling for the introduction of a seven-day regular service in the NHS for the past few years.

Consultant anaesthetist Dr Nikki Thompson, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's Scottish consultants committee, said cover was already in place to make sure high-quality care was provided for emergency cases.

HUNDREDS of children are being vaccinated with MMR jabs at special sessions held in the wake of the first suspected death in a measles epidemic.

The public services union Unison is to challenge the Scottish Government to implement minimum staff-to-patient ratios – a key recommendation from the Francis report into deaths at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Kidneys have been fashioned by scientists and observed functioning in rats.

ZOO bosses may import frozen giant panda sperm if Edinburgh's favourite bears fail to conceive.

NHS workers have called on the Health Secretary to take action to prevent a third year of pension contribution increases.

The parents of a teenager who died from a rare disease have launched the first online resource for people living with the chronic illness.